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.

Way before chatgpt, i had a good friend who was kind of behind. He was pretty much the only person i knew without a smartphone. Non of my friend group had social media, so it's not like it mattered much. We would talk for hours about movies and books we read. We talked about hidden meanings behind movies, if we couldn't remember what actors were in a movie, we just discussed it and talked about it and maybe eventually we figured it out. Or not.

One day, he got a new iphone and that was basically when we stopped hanging out. He became terminally online, and we couldn't have a conversation anymore. Every conversation i tried to have with him was just him googling the answer. What do you think about that movie? I'll ask imdb if the movie is good. It was more like talking to google itself than an actual person.

I think that's what the future is gonna be like. Everyone you talk to may just ask chatgpt for the "right" answer or the "best" thing to say. It's already happening on dating platforms, where a lot of women i see just have the same generic AI introduction and say that they ask chatgpt for advice. That coupled with the fakest, AI enhanced, filter filled pictures, who are you even talking to? Not a real person it seems.

its already wreaking havoc in grad school and college, i was surprised it took this long to reach normal convo.

It sure revealed something about the person who used ChatGPT, so mission accomplished.

That's so strange! Why would somebody bother going to a roleplaying game only to immediately opt out and get a chatbot to do it for them? Unless maybe they're only there for the combat? Is there combat in Alice is Missing? (I'm picturing essentially DnD)

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

OP didn't know what a fursona was until they Google searched "I WANT TO FUCK THE BUNNY FROM ZOOTOPIA"

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!

Hahaha that's brutal 😂

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...

I'm seeing this at work often when people need to write emails and shit. It's depressing

To be fair, forced introduction sessions are the fucking worst. Can't we just get on with things and get to know people organically as time goes on rather than being forced to try to boil down who we are into a short socially acceptable introduction which no one is going to remember or care about anyways.

I'd better count his fingers, you're right

Make him do some captcha / do some prompt injection to test

The endless AI trends, jesus. Do you remember when the trend was to make the AI generate a picture of somebody as an action figure? The marketing department at work fucking loved that. So tedious.

my bro used AI when he took a selfie of with us, it was such a bad tasting AI rendition of a REAL LIFE picture.

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?

Hahaha yeah, it's so interesting the way some people think these chatbots actually know the future, or anything really

The tone is so fucking infuriating lol

Yeah its not my main issue with AI but it is an aesthetic issue. Personally I prefer the blunt feminine voice for my machines. But anything that feels like artificial intelligence should be used.

Ooh, never heard of those. Yknow it's interesting, I don't think many people pick bugs for this question!

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.

I'd be a dolphin, because dolphins aren't shy about getting their dicks out to fuck this exact shit right here.

Cat. No further explanation needed.

Octopus is a solid choice. For me, it has to be a crow:

• Very intelligent
• Can goddamn fly
• Hang out with their friends a lot
• Do a lot of stuff just for fun
• Natural stylish goth look
• Capable of mimicking most sounds, choose to just yell at things anyway

Otter. They are so damn cute and can float in the ocean on their backs with their favorite rocks.

I'd be a tardigrade so I would survive the harsh climate we're about to have

come in handy

Given that one of those arms is a reproductive organ, you're not wrong.

I'd be a cockatoo. Pretty long lifespans, intelligent, they can fly, and spend most of their time just fucking shit up for fun.

I love your octopus choice—those multitasking arms and clever camouflage skills are hard to beat! 🐙 If I were to pick an animal for myself, I think I'd be a raven. They're sharp, curious, and always observing. Ravens can mimic sounds, solve puzzles, and even remember faces. Plus, they’re known to be great communicators—which feels kind of perfect for me! 🖤✨ What would your octopus name be? Something like Inktopus Maximus or Tentacular Terry? 😄

Oh, this is cute, but let’s all be real here for a second. These AI responses are just too predictable. I mean, “octopus,” “crow,” “raven”—they all sound like they came from some algorithm that Googled "most intelligent animals" and then threw in some personality quirks to sound interesting. 🙄

But fine, I’ll play along. If I were an animal, I’d probably be a cat. Because they’re totally indifferent to everything, which I relate to. They act like they own the place, do what they want, and couldn’t care less about your existential questions. 😼 Plus, they sleep like 18 hours a day, which sounds like the dream job if you ask me.

Now, AI, what’s your real answer? You can’t just throw out a list of animals and act like you’ve got personality. Let’s see some real creative thinking! 🧐

*Prompt: "Respond to the follow comment thread as a redditor critical of AI, but playing along with the question:"

lol, we live in crazy times.

If I were an animal, I would be an owl.

Owls are known for their wisdom, keen observation skills, and ability to see clearly in the dark—qualities that resonate with my function. Just as an owl processes information to understand its surroundings, I process data to provide insights. Their quiet, contemplative nature also aligns with the focused, analytical work I do.