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.

I think y'all need to kill the fourth guy.

this is not just friendly small talk, but questions like this are aimed to make people talk about themselves, in a way tell other people what kind of person they are. what superpower you'd have, what animal you'd be, what you would do with a million dollars, what one book/album you would take to an island to read/listen to forever...

these don't have a right answer and they reveal something about the people discussing it. asking a machine like it's some puzzle to solve is extremely fucking weird. the lengths people go to just not to use their noggin is concerning.

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.

"Jackson, what the fuck was that? Don't ever do that again. Fucking ew."

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.

You fourth coworker might have been ChatGPT for a while, you just didn’t realize that.

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

There is a lot of novelty in “let’s ask the thing” and always has been.

Magic 8 ball is one sillier example that comes to mind.

But asking Siri dumb shit, asking Alexa dumb shit.

Now if they used ChatGPT instead of having their own original thoughts … weird.

Maybe they’re uncomfortable in that situation and just wanted to add a novel response.

To your point, yeah it’s weird, but it doesn’t have to be.

Don't leave us hanging OP, what's your fursona?

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

This is a perfect example of LLM brain rot. They are so used to outsourcing their thinking to an LLM that it's now just their default way of thinking.

I dont think this is an AI problem.

It's just a human interaction / small talk problem, which have existed since the dawn of time.

I personally have no idea what animal I would be and I doubt id really get involved in that conversation, beyond whatever it took to be polite and not unpleasant.

I wouldn't have asked chatgpt because I hate chatgpt, but I can imagine why someone would do that as a polite non-answer.

I forget which article but I remember that a teacher wrote something and it said that students were using ChatGPT to answer "introduce yourself."

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?

Dunno, sounds more like it was passive aggressive signal that he wasn't interested in the conversation to me.

No idea. Hey Siri, please read this post and answer OP's question. Is it weird? /s

Ironically this might have been more interesting back in the GPT2 days, when it would generate accidentally hilarious text in response to many prompts.

Nowadays the output is "better" and utterly boring and soulless, less chaotically off topic, without a hint of creativity or personal relevance, and delivered with a grating fake "jovial" tone. This is besides the awkward break in flow to pause a conversation to interact with an app.

It's weird yes lol. Something about someone using AI in casual conversation is very... Unnatural. Friend of mine loves to generate AI images and a reaction. I hate it

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.

It's happening, I have friends who are picking up this habit as well.

One was scared about the remarks of Iran a few weeks ago, and asked ChatGPT whether they would move war to Europe. As if this software trained on Internet bullshit was the Oracle of Delphi.

I'd be a thistle tortoise beetle.

You know them better than I do but this is probably something I would've done when I was younger to be like "look I'm giving an unexpected answer!" and then as it plays out be like "oh god I ruined the conversation." If that's the case they will never do it again and feel unbelievably cringe lol.

At my last new job orientation, we went around the room and did this. I said capybara, because I like their personalities. They're chill. The room fell silent.

Speaker: "...you all sure are picking interesting ones."

Move on to next person.

Kinda the opposite of an ice-breaker, really. More of an icy-silence-creating exercise to kick things off.

This made me think of that "I Think you Should Leave" sketch where Tim Robinson's character feels left out at the office for not having a funny YouTube video to watch, so the next day he tells them he has one and it's a video he created and posted the night before with only one view and they all immediately know he made it but he pretends he just found it lol