A student used ChatGPT to get out of a $75 parking fine she felt she shouldn't have been issued
A student in the UK used ChatGPT to get out of a £60 parking fine that she doesn't think should have been issued.
Millie Houlton told Insider that roadworks around where she lived meant she couldn't park her Citroën car in her usual spot, which she has a permit for, so she parked elsewhere on March 20 following guidance from a traffic warden. But she was issued a parking fine. Houlton, who had previously used ChatGPT to summarize readings for her university studies, decided that to save time she would use the generative AI system to send a letter to the local council in York explaining her situation. Two days later, the council told her it would no longer be fining her, in a letter to Houlton viewed by Insider.
"I just found it a bit easier to use a tool that could put my thoughts into words and get my point across properly," she told Insider. Microsoft-backed OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public in November 2022, and since then the platform has rocketed, reaching 100 million monthly active users in just over two months. Since then, Google has
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