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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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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd be a thistle tortoise beetle.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It has a penis longer than its entire body. Before I get eaten by a bird, I want to parade that thing around.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Looks like the infants also make shields around their body from their own feces which really resonates with me

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (17 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?

[–] Vedlt@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Cat. No further explanation needed.

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago

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
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 15 points 4 days 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 11 points 4 days 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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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Uh, weird behaviour. Maybe he already unlearned how to think or be creative. I've never seen anything like that, but I've seen people where the light are on but nobody's home. That leads to the same situation. I wouldn't know what to respond either. That's just the end of that conversation.

[–] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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.

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