A few colleagues and I were sat at our desks the other day, and one of them asked the group, “if you were an animal, what animal would you be?”
I answered with my favourite animal, and we had a little discussion about it. My other colleague answered with two animals, and we tossed those answers back and forth, discussing them and making jokes. We asked the colleague who had asked the question what they thought they’d be, and we discussed their answer.
Regular, normal, light-hearted (time wasting lol) small talk at work between friendly coworkers.
We asked the fourth coworker. He said he’d ask ChatGPT.
It was a really weird moment. We all just kind of sat there. He said the animal it came back with, and that was that. Any further discussion was just “yeah that’s what it said” and we all just sort of went back to our work.
That was weird, right? Using ChatGPT for what is clearly just a little bit of friendly small talk? There’s no bad blood between any of us, we hang out a lot, but it just struck me as really weird and a little bit sad.
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Guy lost his brain
Haha yeah I was tempted to say something like that but ultimately just didn’t want to get into it
Yeah sounds like no one at the table had basic social skills. At least GPT guy was aware lmao
Making small talk with coworkers means we have no basic social skills? I’d argue that small talk might be one of the most basic social skills personally lol
Honestly that’s the same with one of our friends.
He got sucked into the LLM rabbit hole and now just occasionally says some weird shit no one interacts with.
I have a feeling that brainrot is accelerated in these kinds of people due to a positive feedback loop as they become ostracized due to a noticible “self-deterioration”.
Use LLM -> become brainrot -> can’t connect with others -> use more LLM -> become more brainrot -> more ostracized from society -> ad nauseum.
Way before chatgpt, i had a good friend who was kind of behind. He was pretty much the only person i knew without a smartphone. Non of my friend group had social media, so it’s not like it mattered much. We would talk for hours about movies and books we read. We talked about hidden meanings behind movies, if we couldn’t remember what actors were in a movie, we just discussed it and talked about it and maybe eventually we figured it out. Or not.
One day, he got a new iphone and that was basically when we stopped hanging out. He became terminally online, and we couldn’t have a conversation anymore. Every conversation i tried to have with him was just him googling the answer. What do you think about that movie? I’ll ask imdb if the movie is good. It was more like talking to google itself than an actual person.
I think that’s what the future is gonna be like. Everyone you talk to may just ask chatgpt for the “right” answer or the “best” thing to say. It’s already happening on dating platforms, where a lot of women i see just have the same generic AI introduction and say that they ask chatgpt for advice. That coupled with the fakest, AI enhanced, filter filled pictures, who are you even talking to? Not a real person it seems.
They’re pushing LLMs so fucking hard at work but I finally destroyed my personal OpenAI account and decided to go back to actually researching topics.
It just got to the point that I got tired of constantly rewriting the same fucking problem 20 million ways in hopes of finally getting the right answer. I kept noticing that if I just slowed down and looked at what it was doing I could find the flaw myself in seconds.
Dunno about you, but whenever I have to post something on Stack Overflow or similars, explaining minute detail what my problem is, I often end up finding out what’s wrong. I suppose that can work on many other areas, too
This is exactly the concept behind Rubber Duck debugging.!
its already wreaking havoc in grad school and college, i was surprised it took this long to reach normal convo.
Hahaha that’s brutal 😂
No idea. Hey Siri, please read this post and answer OP’s question. Is it weird? /s
I am sorry, I cant find please read this post and answer OP’s question in your contact list, would you like to create a contact for them?
Siri, play EOTEOT.
maybe he has social anxiety or lacks social skills and uses chatGPT as a crotch
Must not laugh … Am definitely more mature than that …
Maybe, but we’re friendly outside of work and I’ve never noticed that before with him. Literally a week before that we’d gone for a picnic with some ex colleagues and it was totally normal and fine – I think he was maybe just already using ChatGPT for a task and figured he would use it cos it was open?
I think y’all need to kill the fourth guy.
That’s a fun one! I’d be an octopus! 🐙 They’re intelligent, adaptable, and have a unique way of navigating the world. Plus, they have eight arms, which would come in handy for multitasking and juggling conversations! 🤣
What about you? If you were an animal, what would you be?
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Oh, this is cute, but let’s all be real here for a second. These AI responses are just too predictable. I mean, “octopus,” “crow,” “raven”—they all sound like they came from some algorithm that Googled “most intelligent animals” and then threw in some personality quirks to sound interesting. 🙄
But fine, I’ll play along. If I were an animal, I’d probably be a cat. Because they’re totally indifferent to everything, which I relate to. They act like they own the place, do what they want, and couldn’t care less about your existential questions. 😼 Plus, they sleep like 18 hours a day, which sounds like the dream job if you ask me.
Now, AI, what’s your real answer? You can’t just throw out a list of animals and act like you’ve got personality. Let’s see some real creative thinking! 🧐
*Prompt: “Respond to the follow comment thread as a redditor critical of AI, but playing along with the question:”
lol, we live in crazy times.
Mate i fuckin love crows no AI was involved
Cat. No further explanation needed.
An opossum. So I can maximize my best skill.
Is your best skill playing dead? Or is it clinging on someone else’s back? Perhaps hanging off a branch upside down?
I’d be a kangaroo I think. They are jacked and their tail seems to be strong enough to be useful.
Or a macaw. They’re loud as fuck but beautiful.
I’d be a dolphin, because dolphins aren’t shy about getting their dicks out to fuck this exact shit right here.
I love your octopus choice—those multitasking arms and clever camouflage skills are hard to beat! 🐙 If I were to pick an animal for myself, I think I’d be a raven. They’re sharp, curious, and always observing. Ravens can mimic sounds, solve puzzles, and even remember faces. Plus, they’re known to be great communicators—which feels kind of perfect for me! 🖤✨ What would your octopus name be? Something like Inktopus Maximus or Tentacular Terry? 😄
If I were an animal, I would be an owl.
Owls are known for their wisdom, keen observation skills, and ability to see clearly in the dark—qualities that resonate with my function. Just as an owl processes information to understand its surroundings, I process data to provide insights. Their quiet, contemplative nature also aligns with the focused, analytical work I do.
Great question! What got you thinking about the animal you'd like to be?
I’d be a tardigrade so I would survive the harsh climate we’re about to have
I’ll be a frog so I don’t
Boiling slowly
Otter. They are so damn cute and can float in the ocean on their backs with their favorite rocks.
come in handy
Given that one of those arms is a reproductive organ, you’re not wrong.
I’d be a cockatoo. Pretty long lifespans, intelligent, they can fly, and spend most of their time just fucking shit up for fun.
Kea bird. Even smarter and cause trouble just out of pure curiosity.
Octopus is a solid choice. For me, it has to be a crow:
- Very intelligent
- Can goddamn fly
- Hang out with their friends a lot
- Do a lot of stuff just for fun
- Natural stylish goth look
- Capable of mimicking most sounds, choose to just yell at things anyway
I’ve started treating it as the last tool I reach for in my toolbox. When it first came out, I was all for it, but then people started taking a picture of a plant and expecting it to reliably identify them, then asking it for nutrition advice, then asking it about weather and the news.
It’s useful for a small subset of people for some of the time, but the vast majority, it just makes things more difficult.
I forget which article but I remember that a teacher wrote something and it said that students were using ChatGPT to answer “introduce yourself.”
To be fair, forced introduction sessions are the fucking worst. Can’t we just get on with things and get to know people organically as time goes on rather than being forced to try to boil down who we are into a short socially acceptable introduction which no one is going to remember or care about anyways.
Eh. There’s a balance. “Introduce yourself” is open ended enough.
Uh, weird behaviour. Maybe he already unlearned how to think or be creative. I’ve never seen anything like that, but I’ve seen people where the light are on but nobody’s home. That leads to the same situation. I wouldn’t know what to respond either. That’s just the end of that conversation.
You fourth coworker might have been ChatGPT for a while, you just didn’t realize that.
Make him do some captcha / do some prompt injection to test
I’d better count his fingers, you’re right
Playing devil’s advocate… Maybe guy 4 wanted to end the distracting-to-him back-and-forth and get back to work, but didn’t want to seem rude, so he got chatgpt to do it. \(%)/
Edit: the shrug
¯\(ツ)/¯
Lol that one! It did not work for me haha
Haha I was gonna say, I’ve never seen a shrug like yours before 😂 although the one you’re replying to has both arms going the same way like a forklift for me!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
why go all that trouble to use chat gpt, it could give a simple answer and be done with it.
Dunno, I’d consider it rude AND super weird to use chatgpt or any AI to end an ongoing small talk
Haha, maybe - but we’re all pretty friendly as a group of co-workers, and we don’t talk when we’re busy. It didn’t feel like he was dipping out of the convo that way, as that’s not how he usually does that. It was just a weird interaction I think!
My father in law is that guy. He loves tech and gadgets and new things. He makes Ai characters of us. We all tell him we hate them and that it’s slop and he says “ya, it’s so cool”
Fuckin boomers, man.
my bro used AI when he took a selfie of with us, it was such a bad tasting AI rendition of a REAL LIFE picture.
The endless AI trends, jesus. Do you remember when the trend was to make the AI generate a picture of somebody as an action figure? The marketing department at work fucking loved that. So tedious.
I played Alice is Missing at a board game bar with a pickup group one time and one of the players said he’d use ChatGPT for his role-playing (possibly out of a sense of novelty? perhaps that is just me being charitable). It was exactly like having an NPC and I can’t remember any notable things that character did
That’s so strange! Why would somebody bother going to a roleplaying game only to immediately opt out and get a chatbot to do it for them? Unless maybe they’re only there for the combat? Is there combat in Alice is Missing? (I’m picturing essentially DnD)
It’s extremely pure roleplay (no dice or success-resolution mechanics at all), but I think he didn’t realize that when we started
Off course it’s bullshit. It doesn’t give a fuck favortite animals and can’t feel anything not even about humans let alone animals. If you asked it about Israel/Palesine and it would tell you it’s “sensitive complicated topic” because it’s been scrabbing zionist-influenced western news and does not give a fuck and cannot give a fuck about kids straved and getting maimed and amputed , THAT IS if it’s not pre-forcablly censored about the topic already.
