General Discussion

Welcome to the Formidably Community. This is the open starting point for thoughtful conversations about using AI without giving up human judgement.

Use this space for questions, observations, examples, and useful links. Product-specific discussion areas can be added as courses, books, and workbooks move across.

According to a recent Lloyds Banking Group study, 28 million people in Britain use AI for personal finances.

As you'll see in the blog, the claim is open to challenge and appears to come from extrapolating the results of a survey of 5,000 digitally engaged people, and applying it to the overall UK adult population.

I've used ChatGPT before now to summarise credit card statements, so I guess I'm one of the people that does use it.

Deep Research is a great tool when we're working on competitive analysis, or market research. But not every topic has to be serious. Some are just things we’re curious about.

This one started when I noticed how often ChatGPT uses em dashes in my own work, and how they had become a hot topic on LinkedIn with a debate over whether they are an AI signal or the mark of prose and formal writing.

So we turned it into a Deep Research topic. Did em dash use really increase after ChatGPT launched? Was it different in the UK and the US? And if so, why?