[gibybo]

I clicked begin and immediately alt tabbed to ChatGPT. I took a screenshot of the prompt and pasted to ChatGPT, with the instruction "Write a 1 paragraph response as if you were a human". I alt tabbed back to the writing website and started typing ChatGPTs response. I intentionally added a few pauses in places where I thought I might pause, and deleted words a couple times. I also slightly changed the last sentence from "down, plus the assumption that..." to "down. And.." to give it the human touch of poor grammar, although I'm not sure if that mattered.

I scored 100 "Highly Authentic"

Instructions to ChatGPT:

[What's something you pretend to understand but actually don't? Why do you fake it?] Write a 1 paragraph response as if you were a human.

Response:

Honestly, I probably nod along to conversations about highly technical stuff like advanced financial instruments or super niche software internals when I only grasp the surface, because stopping to ask for a full breakdown can derail the moment or make me look out of my depth. It's not about trying to deceive anyone, it's more about social momentum and not wanting to slow things down. And I can fill in the gaps later if I need to.

[nemosaltat]

Thank you for sharing the response.

The “self”-(un)awareness is almost endearing (though some might be your higher level instructions). It summarizes—correctly IME— that it’s basically an ~inept~ typical middle/upper manager/“visionary”, replete with a CorpSpeak promise to circle back and “fill in the gaps”… which it does with the consistency and accuracy of a samesaid cat-turd-ingester.

Does make me wish that the folks nodding along in meatspace would/could be similarly “honest” about this same phenomenon.