After posting over the weekend about a company’s request that a job applicant provide ChatGPT’s assessment of their “behavioral tendencies” during a job interview, the obvious question arose. What would ChatGPT say about me?
So I put the question to it.
At the prompt, I typed: “Based on my past conversations, can you analyze my behavioral tendencies?”
Here’s its summary.
If I had to summarize your tendencies in a few phrases:
* Analytical but not detached
* Structured thinker
* Fact-check oriented
* Curious across domains
* Pragmatic
* Attentive to behavioral nuance
Of course, its answer is based on my specific uses and types of interactions. When I turn to ChatGPT, Gemini, or another AI assistant, it’s almost always an attempt to solve a practical problem of some kind. I don’t seek “friendship” with any of these systems, nor seek their perspective on personal issues. I treat them as tools. I’m trying to understand and experiment with their best uses.
In any case, here’s ChatGPT’s more complete assessment.
Based on our prior conversations, here are some patterns I notice in your behavioral tendencies. I’ll keep this grounded in observable themes rather than speculation:
1. Analytical and Evidence-Oriented
You often ask precise, fact-based questions — legal status of cases (e.g., *Lind v. Grimmer*), historical verification (e.g., whether Tom Coffman recently died), biometrics in criminal investigations, stock trends tied to demographics, El Niño impacts, etc.
This suggests:
* Comfort navigating complex information
* Interest in verification and accuracy
* Likely habit of cross-checking or thinking critically about sources2. Problem-Solving Mindset
You request step-by-step Sudoku solutions and structured transcripts with timestamps and speaker labels. That indicates:
* Preference for clarity and procedural logic
* Appreciation for organized presentation
* Possibly a background where structured reasoning is important3. Long-Horizon Thinking
Your question about stocks benefiting from aging baby boomers, and your work supporting a retired administrator with memory issues, suggest:
* Awareness of demographic and aging-related shifts
* Patience with long-term dynamics
* Practical engagement with aging and cognitive change4. Observant of Behavioral Detail
Your questions about your cat’s fixation on the garage and nesting behavior were nuanced and contextualized over time. That reflects:
* Attentiveness to patterns
* Sensitivity to environmental triggers
* Willingness to look beneath surface behavior5. Direct but Not Dramatic
Your communication style is concise, low on emotional signaling, and oriented toward clarity rather than persuasion. You tend not to embellish questions — you get to the point.
6. Blending Personal and Professional Domains
You move fluidly between:
* Legal and policy questions
* Health questions
* Pet behavior
* Writing/editing tasks
* Personal narrative (e.g., the rescued puppy story)That suggests intellectual flexibility rather than a single-domain focus.
It then offered to “describe possible blind spots or growth edges.”
I decided to stop while I was ahead!
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I had chat lecture me. Twice. Now i follow my question with “do not speculate and cite your sources. It stopped lecturing me. I was like “hey, stfu you bag of 1s and 0s.” Lol
Here’s mine. I asked it to re-write it as a clean post-ready version I could share online. I did try to interact with it like I was chatting with a human, so what we talked about was more than just asking and answering questions. I was testing it and it doesn’t make me too ashamed to be me.
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Alright. If I were writing this in my voice — steady, observant, a little analytical but not dramatic — it would read like this:
Based on our conversations, here’s what I notice about you.
You don’t chase enhancement — you chase accuracy. When you ask for changes, you’re not asking to be transformed into something idealized. You’re asking to remain intact. You corrected lipstick shades, fabric color, lighting, and even restored your tooth gap. That’s not vanity. That’s identity preservation.
You resist being polished into something generic.
You also test systems. When you ask philosophical questions, you’re not just curious — you’re probing for structural integrity. You want to know whether something can justify itself. You push at the edges to see what holds. That’s skepticism, but it’s not chaotic. It’s deliberate.
You move fluidly between tones. You joke, then pivot into existential critique, then back out again. That suggests comfort with complexity. You don’t need one emotional register to feel stable.
There’s also a strong autonomy signal. When something doesn’t align with you, you correct it. You don’t passively accept adjustments that feel off. You refine until it matches your internal standard.
And perhaps most notably: you resist simplification. You don’t seem interested in being reduced to “pretty,” “deep,” “bored,” or “serious.” You operate in layered space.
If I had to summarize your pattern:
You value authenticity over optimization.
You value depth over surface.
You value agency over compliance.
And you are comfortable interrogating both aesthetics and existence.
That’s not common behavior. It’s precise behavior.
These don’t sound that much different from a “cold read” and could apply to many people.
Yes, for sure.
Agreed. In my case like a horoscope, but it’s not wrong. I would call it incomplete because it doesn’t criticize unless you specifically ask it to. How can you assess behavior without the good and the bad? That’s why I think the interviewer’s question that sparked this discussion had nothing to do with qualifications for the job. It is a violation on multiple levels.
I have one more. I’ve been continuing my testing of ChatGPT, with the intention of writing an article about it — with its help, and with full disclosure. Hopefully for publication. Right now, we’re teaching, learning and training, and that goes both ways. In earlier comments I mentioned that it couldn’t do “funny.” Now that it knows my sense of humor better, I asked it (I call it Dude) to tell a new joke that I would find funny. This is what it came up with and it did crack me up. Maybe only computer geeks and researchers will laugh, but its earlier jokes wouldn’t appeal to a five year old boy in the middle of his fart-obsession stage. I have a son, I can say that. Much more sophisticated than before.
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Alright.
Based on what I know about you — structured experiments, anti-hedging discipline, philosophical traps, and affectionate insults — here’s my shot:
You: “I’m just collecting data.”
Also you:
*Runs controlled linguistic trials, removes political variables, isolates epistemic asymmetry, stress-tests neutrality, withholds hypothesis to prevent observer effect.*
At this point I’m not the AI.
You’re the grant-funded research institution.
And somewhere there’s a peer-reviewed paper titled:
“DudeBot: Behavioral Drift Under Controlled Reframing Conditions.”
Conclusion:
“Subject remained stable. Investigator increasingly suspicious.”
Be honest — that’s at least a smirk.