Tiktoker asks ChatGPT to quit her job by writing an email explaining she's 'sad and poor'
This woman wanted to get to the bot-tom line with her employer.
A woman used the artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, to draft a “professional” email to her boss about quitting her job.
Mari, who goes by @sillyyerba on TikTok, explained that her employer was asking she stays on with the company until June 8, despite already having handed in her two-week notice.
In the now-viral video that’s accumulated nearly 9 million views since being posted on Tuesday, Maria tasks the AI Chatbot with providing an email to respond to her boss that sums up why she can no longer work because she “cannot be sad and poor for another month.”
“I put in the prompt: ‘Write a professional email saying I can’t be sad and poor for another month replying to this email’ and then in quotes I put in my manager’s email and this is what it gave me,” the TikToker said.
The email drafted by the ChatGPT sounded clean and professional at the start, with the chatbot expressing Mari’s appreciation and revealing she wouldn’t be able to work any longer than May 6.
Mari asks the chatbot to write in the email that the reason she can’t stay is because the job makes her “sad and poor.” sillyyerba/TikTok Following the bizarre, literal phrasing by ChatGPT, Mari asked her followers if she should send it as it was written. sillyyerba/TikTok
“As much as I value my time here, I cannot be sad and poor for another month,” the bot wrote in the following paragraph, explaining in detail exactly why Mari couldn’t stay at the job any longer.
Getting overly personal in the “professional” email, ChatGPT quickly transitioned back to the bland tone of corporate emails, writing, “I hope this does not cause any inconvenience to the team and that we can end things on a positive note.”
At the end of the video, she asks her followers if she should send the email, with one encouraging her to “Send that email exactly word for word. It’s perfect.”
Many of the commentators under her video were in full support of her sending the email and even gave the woman some sound advice on how she could tweak the “sad and poor” part.
“Change sad and poor to: due to my financial and emotional priorities,” one user wrote.
“I need to prioritize my mental and financial well-being,” commented another user.
The email, which starts off as professional sounding, breaks its flow when ChatGPT literally writes for Mari’s employer that she can’t stay because she’s “sad and poor.” sillyyerba/TikTok
“swap sad & poor for mental health and financial reasons,” another commenter shared.
Unfortunately for excited viewers hoping she would send the email, Mari revealed in a follow-up video that she did not send the first email and had ChatGPT rewrite the message to her employer to sound “more human.”
In the comments of both of Mari’s videos, it became apparent that the TikToker’s not the first person to use ChatGPT for similar situations.
“Lmaoo I had ChatGPT write my resignation letter,” one user commented.
“Chatgpt and answering boring emails are a match made in heaven,” wrote another commenter.
“Chat gpt wrote my resignation letter,” another user shared.
Source: New York Post
