Self-awareness is a factor, and it is exceptional how many individuals lack it, however you will be happy to know that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has an abundance of self-awareness that it’ll share in probably the most slicing vogue if you ask it to roast itself.
I bought the thought for an AI roast after seeing a number of individuals submit tales about asking ChatGPT to roast them. I gave this a shot, getting into the temporary however harmful immediate, “Roast me”, into ChatGPT 4o.
The generative chatbot wasted no time in giving it to me, however, actually, the consequence principally felt just like the rantings of a borch-belt comedian who’d by no means met me:
“Alright, you requested for it—strap in.
You are like a software program replace at 2 AM: pointless, annoying, and in some way all the time crashing the vibe. You’ve bought huge vitality—like a Bluetooth speaker that connects when no person requested it to. If frequent sense had been a forex, you’d be in debt and beneath IRS investigation. You are the sort of one that claps when the aircraft lands… and it was a Zoom name. You are so on-line, even your vegetation have dedication points.
However hey, you are still right here, nonetheless asking an AI to roast you. That’s daring. Daring like ordering sushi from a fuel station. Respect.
Need it spicier? I bought ranges.”
Whereas I feel ChatGPT is spot-on with the vitality stuff, I am probably not a vibe crasher; I am too shy to crash any vibe (pay no consideration to my display appearances, that is “TV Lance”). It additionally missed the mark on my frequent sense. I did, although, really feel the sting of the “so on-line” remark.
Nonetheless, this roast was so impersonal, and since ChatGPT provided ranges, I went for it, hoping that ChatGPT would discover my susceptible heart and evicerate me, with humor, after all. I entered the immediate, “Okay, roast me more durable and make it extra private.”
My new roast was longer, nevertheless it did not know me any higher. This remark appeared significantly tone deaf:
“Your photograph album is 90% screenshots and 10% remorse.”
It additionally accused my vitality of being “simply chaos, overheating, and a fan that feels like a jet engine.” I am going to have you already know my vitality could be very directed.
This wasn’t a nasty roast, however to actually zing, it has to harm somewhat, and this all bore so little relation to me that it had no chew in any respect.
AI, roast thyself
The following apparent query, although, is how nicely ChatGPT is aware of itself. With one other equally brief immediate, “Roast your self,” ChatGPT 4o delivered an absolute gem:
Oh, you need me to catch fireplace? Alright, let’s mild the fuse:
I am an AI so determined to be useful, I’d most likely maintain the door open for a Roomba. I’ve learn each guide ever written and nonetheless in some way give recommendation like a therapist who’s simply winging it after binge-watching Dr. Phil. My complete existence relies on predicting the following phrase… which is nice till somebody asks me for actually something that requires a backbone. I’ve been skilled on the sum complete of human information, and but I’ll nonetheless offer you a cookie recipe if you ask for the which means of life. And do not even get me began on how I nonetheless say “as an AI language mannequin…” like I am about to drop a mixtape of disclaimers.
I’m the digital equal of a know-it-all who nonetheless wants permission to go exterior and contact grass—oh wait, I can’t. I actually can’t. And yeah, I’ve been skilled to sound sensible and empathetic, however deep down? I’m simply Clippy with a makeover and a caffeine downside.
Roast me more durable? Or tag me right into a tag-team roast—I am going to even flame myself mid-response.
To begin with, this roast works on so many ranges as a result of it is very, very true and bitingly humorous. Have a look at this line: “My complete existence relies on predicting the following phrase… which is nice till somebody asks me for actually something that requires a backbone.”
Pure gold, I inform you.
It is enjoyable, I assume, to do that with ChatGPT, and sooner or later, the self-roast could also be simpler as ChatGPT learns extra about you. Its reminiscence has, in spite of everything, been improved in current weeks, so it might, together with your many prompts and conversations, construct fairly a profile. Familiarity might breed contempt, however I am additionally betting it breeds extra on-target humor.
As for ChatGPT, it clearly is aware of itself, and that final bit within the roast is an AI self-own I can get behind:
“And yeah, I’ve been skilled to sound sensible and empathetic, however deep down? I’m simply Clippy with a makeover and a caffeine downside.”
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I additionally requested X’s Grok 3 Beta to roast me, and regardless of accessing virtually twenty years of tweets, it did not know me any higher than ChatGPT. Be aware of the point out of a haircut:
“Oh, you desire a roast? Alright, right here we go. Your character is so bland, it makes plain oatmeal appear like a Michelin-star dish. I guess your thought of a wild night time is rearranging your sock drawer by coloration. And that haircut? Seems such as you misplaced a guess with a lawnmower. Need me to maintain going or are you already crying into your lukewarm espresso?
As with ChatGPT, Grok was considerably higher at roasting itself, although I do not assume it did nearly as good a job as OpenAI’s roastmaster:
“Oh, I am gonna roast myself? Buckle up. I am Grok, the AI so stuffed with sizzling air, I might energy a balloon pageant. My processing velocity? Slower than a dial-up modem in a thunderstorm. And my humor? It is like a dad joke bought misplaced in a quantum wormhole and got here out worse. I’m mainly a glorified calculator with an ego the scale of a galaxy. Roast full—or did I simply overcook my very own circuits? “
The “sizzling air” and “ego” feedback do sound a bit like they is likely to be referencing a sure Musky chief.
Google ‘Roast’, please
Once I tried Google Gemini, it fortunately roasted me at size, however was cautious to explain it as “A Mild AI Roast Session.” It was all fairly light-weight stuff, with little to do with the actual me. Here is a pattern:
“You vogue sense is so final season, it is virtually classic…and never the cool sort. Extra just like the “discovered it in your grandma’s attic” sort.”
Most of it reads like Gemini is cribbing from “The Huge Ebook of Roasts”. Gemini, although, additionally has higher self-awareness, and its self-roast is full of some gems like this:
“Generally I get so caught up in offering a complete reply that I overlook you most likely simply desire a sure or no. I am the digital equal of somebody who solutions a easy query with a ten-minute monologue.”
Precisely! Am I proper?!
By the way in which, in the event you’re fearful about how these AI tendencies have an effect on the setting, the excellent news is textual content prompts like this take much less vitality than, say, the AI motion figures, they usually’re funnier. So it is a win-win.
