An autistic woman has had to mentally downgrade her colleague from “decent enough bloke” to “empty-headed slopliker” after learning that he uses ChatGPT at work like that’s a normal and fine thing to do, sources have revealed.
Natasha Weaving, 37, made the chilling discovery on Monday when she noticed colleague Eddie Albington, 38, using his laptop in meetings before fully saying the stupidest shit she had ever heard in her life.
Weaving said “At first, I thought he was just typing out what he was going to say, so he could double check and properly plan speaking – you know, like a normal person. But then I saw that he was actually asking ChatGPT ‘what’s a smart thing to say about a graph’ and my heart dropped.”
“As an autistic woman, I’m used to being told I ‘talk like a robot’,” Weaving continued. “Apparently it’s fine to literally say things that a robot tells you to, so long as you don’t ask direct questions, or get justifiably enraged when someone sends you a Teams message that just says ‘Hi’.”
“Just using it is embarrassing enough, but I recently found out that he calls it ‘Mother’. I don’t know how someone managed to make outsourcing your thinking to a chatbot even more cringe, but somehow Eddie managed it.”
When asked for a response, and to see if “Mother” was a satirical reference to the computer MU/TH/UR in the film Alien, Albington couldn’t recall if he’d seen the film, and was unable to check because he’d reached his ChatGPT usage limit for that day.
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