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.
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.
There's past evidence that the brain essentially outsources whole categories of knowledge and memories and skill to its surroundings.
You might get good at certain things and learn certain things, somebody else learns something else, and then you both learn roughly what the other knows, at which point you rely on them for questions specific to what they know, and they rely on you for your specialty.
We do this with technology too (it's a big part of skills involving tools), and people has been doing it with dictionaries, online searches, etc.
But doing it so universally for everything, just because chatgpt can form answer-shaped text for anything, is just insane. Don't you even want to have your own personal feelings and thoughts? Do you just want to become an indirect interface to a bot for other people?
It's like the kind of personality-less people who mold themselves after popular people around them, but they're doing it with an algorithm instead...
Yeah this is why its important to teach math without calculators
I'm seeing this at work often when people need to write emails and shit. It's depressing
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.
I can maybe see it as a fun little thing like, oh let's also ask chat gpt, but only if they had also given an answer for themselves.
I always hate these questions and never have an answer with any meaning. I’d never delegate to an LLM because I understand the goal of the question but I’d be cheering on the guy that did
Mh ... not sure what I hate more, AI or small talk. This is a though one.
Hahaha that's brutal 😂
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.
It sure revealed something about the person who used ChatGPT, so mission accomplished.
Sounds like a good way to get bad people from knowing too much about you.
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.
Magic 8 ball is one sillier example that comes to mind.
Don't trash talk the 8-ball. It knew all about Microsoft Outlook was before Outlook was even a thing. The 8-ball is prophetic.
I was blind to the prophecy
That was them using ChatGPT instead of having their own original thoughts, wasn't it? That's what struck me as so weird.
Dunno, sounds more like it was passive aggressive signal that he wasn't interested in the conversation to me.
“Yeah, dude, I wasn’t asking ChatGPT, I was asking you!!”
That guy is weird af.
I refuse to believe he asked chatgpt his favorite animal that's absurd
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.
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.
Don't leave us hanging OP, what's your fursona?
Hahaha, sorry, I know the suspense must be killing you 😂 I said binturong, because they're my fave animal, and the one time I saw one in real life it just lay around sighing and huffing which is sort of my lifestyle choice too
"Jackson, what the fuck was that? Don't ever do that again. Fucking ew."
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
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.
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.
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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