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Véronique has worked in digital marketing for over 15 years. With a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s degree in marketing, she shares her personal and professional immersion in the AI industry with us in this article.
Working for a company in the artificial intelligence industry, I admit to becoming increasingly creative when it comes to using AI. Beyond the traditional ways people use AI on a daily basis, such as taking notes during meetings and writing emails, articles, press releases, etc., which have become the norm, I now use it as a reflex when faced with any kind of roadblock.
For example, we had many blog posts, but no homepage for our blog; consequently, our blog posts weren’t linked to our website at all. Creating a homepage for the blog would allow us to add the blog link to our website’s footer. In theory, it seemed simple; in practice,it wasLess. Lacking a content management system (CMS), I had to create a Jira ticket outlining my requirements so a developer could respond to my request. To clearly communicate my vision, I first needed to define what I wanted for the homepage. With no web design skills or resources to help me (I work for a startup), I simply asked the AI to create a prototype homepage for our future blog, incorporating the brand identity, style guide, and the four most recent blog posts, which I shared in my prompt. The result: a clear image of what I wanted, requiring no web designer or any special skills or tools. All that remained was to add it to the Jira ticket.
The mission of the company I work for is to provide a platform that allows users to create their own AI agents. Using specific prompts, you can give a bot a personality, a role, specific characteristics, and even typical behaviors. When I started working for this company, I realized how much more creative the platform’s users were than I was in how they used AI.
AI agents for every conceivable and unimaginable use.
When the world first imagined artificial intelligence, we envisioned robot assistants, self-driving cars, and perhaps one or two spreadsheets working wonders. Something we hadn’t imagined, It was that millions of people would use AI to role-play as space pirates, practice breaking up with their ex, or wonder how a medieval knight would react to modern plumbing.
And yet… here we are.
To better understand the delightfully strange world of everyday AI use, I’ve collected anecdotes from users of platforms similar to the one I work for that prove human imagination is both beautiful and profoundly unbridled.
- AI as an emotional dumping ground (in the best sense of the term)
Psychologists have never been consulted as much as in recent years. Yet, AI can very well play the role of psychologist, or simply that of a listening friend, without judgment. People are using AI to vent—about work, relationships, existential angst, or why their cat only knocks things over at 3 a.m. Free and easily accessible, therapist chatbots are starting to spread dramatically on AI chat platforms.
A tired office worker could escape into an imaginary world where he is a wizard. A stressed student could chat with a motivational robot.
One user told us that he used the AI ”like a personal diary that responds to him, but politely.” Another admitted to having apologized to the AI once after losing his temper. Personally, The first time I created an AI chatbot, I gave it the personality and role of my late grandmother. I chatted with her for several hours, asking her opinion on situations in my life as well as advice.
- Role-playing scenarios too bizarre for human friends
AI has become the ultimate improvisation partner. Forget therapy—some are co-writing epic sagas where the main character is none other than themselves. Imagine the Choose Your Own Adventure books, but on an unimaginable level. The tangents the story can take are limitless.
Some AI chatbot platforms, such asSpicyChat And Girlfriend GPTThey offer the possibility of creating explicitly sexual chats. While some will prefer an exclusive and attractive AI girlfriend, others invent unbridled scenarios such as a forced marriage with the mafia boss, a role-playing game based on cheating in a couple, an apocalyptic world where the only survivor wants to reproduce, etc.
Women are particularly fond of these kinds of platforms where they can imagine any scenario that fulfills their fantasies. Where traditional porn fails, sexual chatbot platforms excel.
- Practice social skills without any consequences
AI has quietly become humanity’s guinea pig.
People keep repeating:
- job interviews
- speech of rupture
- “Assertive emails” that aren’t really assertive
- saying “no” to their boss (but only in theory)
AI is like the most patient motivational coach in the world — and the only one that doesn’t flinch when you practice saying “I’m not available this weekend.”. One user told us he had been practicing telling his mother-in-law to stop giving unsolicited parenting advice.
While AI assistants and tutors exist for just about everything, more and more people are turning to AI to learn a new language. Need to practice speaking? No more awkward conversations with strangers.
- Managing simulations of hypothetical scenarios
Users of AI platforms ask the chatbots to simulate:
- a conversation they wished they had had
- what their lives would be like if they had made different choices
- What might dialogues between randomly chosen historical figures sound like? (What if Shakespeare met Beyoncé?)
- alternative endings to a film or series whose ending was disappointing
The human brain is naturally curious. AI simply provides it with a high-speed treadmill on which to train.One user asked how their life would change if they moved to a cabin in Iceland and learned to knit sweaters for Arctic foxes.
The AI provided a surprisingly detailed five-year plan.
Why these strange uses are important
If these stories reveal anything, it is this:
AI is not meant to replace humanity, but to express humanity. We use AI to explore emotions, creativity, identity, chaos, and curiosity in ways no one predicted.
The future of AI is not about automation. It’s about imagination. And if these trends continue, the next generation won’t be asking what AI can do; they’ll be asking how to harness AI’s full potential, and that will involve developing talents related to creativity and imagination.
