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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.

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 39 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 19 hours ago

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.

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[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 119 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago

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

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[–] match@pawb.social 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I played Alice is Missing at a board game bar with a pickup group one time and one of the players said he'd use ChatGPT for his role-playing (possibly out of a sense of novelty? perhaps that is just me being charitable). It was exactly like having an NPC and I can't remember any notable things that character did

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 24 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 21 hours ago

Dunno, I'd consider it rude AND super weird to use chatgpt or any AI to end an ongoing small talk

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

why go all that trouble to use chat gpt, it could give a simple answer and be done with it.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)
[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lol that one! It did not work for me haha

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago

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

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think y'all need to kill the fourth guy.

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You fourth coworker might have been ChatGPT for a while, you just didn’t realize that.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

maybe he has social anxiety or lacks social skills and uses chatGPT as a crotch

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Maybe, but we're friendly outside of work and I've never noticed that before with him. Literally a week before that we'd gone for a picnic with some ex colleagues and it was totally normal and fine -- I think he was maybe just already using ChatGPT for a task and figured he would use it cos it was open?

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Clearest example of outsourcing thought to an AI model

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

I’ve started treating it as the last tool I reach for in my toolbox. When it first came out, I was all for it, but then people started taking a picture of a plant and expecting it to reliably identify them, then asking it for nutrition advice, then asking it about weather and the news.

It’s useful for a small subset of people for some of the time, but the vast majority, it just makes things more difficult.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Take your friend out back, put a bullet in their head.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

If he does this again, in a friendly, no bad blood manner gently correct him

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Off course it's bullshit. It doesn't give a fuck favortite animals and can't feel anything not even about humans let alone animals. If you asked it about Israel/Palesine and it would tell you it's "sensitive complicated topic" because it's been scrabbing zionist-influenced western news and does not give a fuck and cannot give a fuck about kids straved and getting maimed and amputed , THAT IS if it's not pre-forcablly censored about the topic already.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (16 children)

That's a fun one! I'd be an octopus! 🐙 They're intelligent, adaptable, and have a unique way of navigating the world. Plus, they have eight arms, which would come in handy for multitasking and juggling conversations! 🤣

What about you? If you were an animal, what would you be?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago

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

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 5 points 21 hours ago

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.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I forget which article but I remember that a teacher wrote something and it said that students were using ChatGPT to answer "introduce yourself."

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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