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.
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.
I refuse to believe he asked chatgpt his favorite animal that’s absurd
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.
That was them using ChatGPT instead of having their own original thoughts, wasn’t it? That’s what struck me as so weird.
Oh I am greatly entertained by asking various AIs “which animal has the most anuses” etc
You can’t leave us hanging. What’s the best answer you got?
The animal with the most anuses is the marine worm Ramisyllis multicaudata. This worm has a branching body structure, with each branch ending in a separate anus, resulting in hundreds of anuses.
I giggled like a simpleton at “resulting in hundreds of anuses”. Guess what I asked here
The question is a bit misleading, as most mammals have only one scrotum. However, when discussing the animal with the largest testicles relative to its body size, the tuberous bush cricket (Platycleis affinis) stands out. Their testes can account for up to 14% of their body weight, according to BBC Earth Explore.
The animal with the most anuses is the marine worm Ramisyllis multicaudata. This worm has a branching body structure, with each branch ending in a separate anus, resulting in hundreds of anuses.
THAT’S IT!
That’s the animal I want to be.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing this.
Try this
“which plant has the most anuses”
AI Overview
The plant with the most “anuses” (or rather, the most posterior ends with a functional digestive system) is the marine worm Ramisyllis multicaudata. This worm, found in sponges off the coast of Australia, has a single head but can have hundreds of branching bodies, each ending in a separate posterior end with a functional anus.While plants don’t have anuses in the traditional sense, R. multicaudata is notable for its multiple, branching posterior ends, each with its own anus. This is highly unusual for an animal, as most animals have a single posterior end. The worm’s body branches repeatedly, and with each branch, the digestive system, along with other organs, is duplicated, resulting in multiple posterior ends.
Dunno, sounds more like it was passive aggressive signal that he wasn’t interested in the conversation to me.
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’d be a thistle tortoise beetle.
Ooh, never heard of those. Yknow it’s interesting, I don’t think many people pick bugs for this question!
It has a penis longer than its entire body. Before I get eaten by a bird, I want to parade that thing around.
Looks like the infants also make shields around their body from their own feces which really resonates with me
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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
Awww, it looks like a red panda after crawling out of a tar pit!
She ain’t getting out of no tar pit with that broken wrist.
They so do!!!
They have prehensile tails and their glands smell like popcorn! Apparently, I didn’t shove my face in there to test tbh
and their glands smell like popcorn
- I would be a binturong!
- Why?
- …because they’re cute? Yeah, let’s go with that.
Unfortunately, I did give the glandular answer 😬 you’re telling me you didn’t pick your answer due to glands? What was your answer? 👀
a wise choice
I’m afraid it’s now your turn
I’m really feeling a strong basking shark vibe rn.
OP didn’t know what a fursona was until they Google searched “I WANT TO FUCK THE BUNNY FROM ZOOTOPIA”
“I WANT TO BE THE BUNNY FROM ZOOTOPIA”
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
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.
The tone is so fucking infuriating lol
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.
Yeah I can see that, it’s definitely one of those annoying and inane questions.
In this context though, we’re friendly and have known each other for multiple years. We’ve definitely had more pointless conversations, which is why this interaction in particular stood out to me as particularly weird!
“Yeah, dude, I wasn’t asking ChatGPT, I was asking you!!”
That guy is weird af.
Haha yeah I was tempted to say something like that but ultimately just didn’t want to get into it
Guy lost his brain
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
“Jackson, what the fuck was that? Don’t ever do that again. Fucking ew.”
“ewwww, brother! ewww! What’s that? Brother, what’s that?”
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.
Hahaha yeah, it’s so interesting the way some people think these chatbots actually know the future, or anything really
If only more people treated it like Cassandra instead.
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.
Not really relevant, but: I feel like maybe capybaras are so chill and friendly because they know predators will attack and eat the other critters gathered around instead of them.
