Fuck AI

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Mh ... not sure what I hate more, AI or small talk. This is a though one.

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.

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.

“Yeah, dude, I wasn’t asking ChatGPT, I was asking you!!”

That guy is weird af.

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.

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

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

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

I refuse to believe he asked chatgpt his favorite animal that's absurd

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.

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.

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.