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.
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
why go all that trouble to use chat gpt, it could give a simple answer and be done with it.
Not sure. Maybe to then use the excuse of “well, chatgpt said so, so that’s what I’d be” and have an out that way too. Honestly, it’s far fetched, but does seem like something someone might do. But as OP pointed out, it’s not really something Guy 4 would do, so my theory was wrong lol
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!
Well there goes that theory lolol!
No, but seriously, I’m glad I was wrong, because it seems like a pretty rude way to shut down a conversion lol
Dunno, I’d consider it rude AND super weird to use chatgpt or any AI to end an ongoing small talk
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Not quite. You’ve escaped a forward slash, while you should have escaped the second underscore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯It depends on the UI. Mine works on the default web UI on desktop and mobile.
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!
Interesting. It renders fine for me. I clicked on the colorful fediverse icon to look at the post on its home instance, and it looks good there, too. I wonder if your phone is rendering differently or if mine is lol