Forgive me, for I have sinned ...
"In Feb I had to write a reflective piece about 1000 words for university. The essay was based on my real experiences and reflection. I wrote the essay myself then fed it into ChatGPT with prompts like “ revise this to make it more professional.” And the output it gave looked much better than my original writing, but did not change my original meanings, and I used the chatgpt output pretty much word for word as the essay I submitted. At the time my intention was not to cheat, I thought it was like using a better version of Grammarly. Especially because I am not a native speaker and have always struggled with writing. Fast forward to today, I realised what I did was shady, put my essay into multiple AI detectors and got picked up as AI written by some. I looked up my university’s policy about AI (published after I submitted the essay), which states you have to openly disclose any use of CharGPT or it will count as contract cheating.
I have been living in pure fear the last couple of weeks and it’s ruining my life. I am in my last year of a professional program which means it will attract more severe penalties. I have immense regret for putting my education and career at risk for something so stupid. I also wish the university had talked to us about AI directly early on."
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CONFESSIONS
"Work has been stressful lately and as a result, for a while I've been too lazy to clean my apartment (and by a while I mean more than a little while).To encourage me to clean my apartment, I've been taking pictures of the rooms in my apartment with a digital camera. I then upload the pictures to ChatGPT and ask it to give me instructions on how to clean my room.Seeing the breakdown of things to do makes cleaning feel less daunting and encourages me to do it. Although I feel a little embarrassed because I feel like I should do it myself......"
"I use chatgpt to write fake love stories where I date Sirius Black. It fully supports my delusions."
"If ChatGPT ever exposed my history I'd be cooked lol"
"I ask it stuff when I have had an argument with someone. I try to prove it my points and it agrees with me with most of the stuff so I feel less wrong lol"
"i few times used it as a calculator for basic math."
"ChatGPT rewrote my resume and cover letter for a job that was out of my league. It then helped me interview prep and gave me the ultimate pep talk before I went in. Landed the job at 28 weeks pregnant"
ABOUT
AI Confessions is a research project designed to provide a small measure of digital catharsis. This is an explorative 'for research' / 'for fun' (hey, what is really the difference?) project born from genuine curiosity and frustration about the sudden burden of responsibility imposed upon all of us to act as independent judges of good and bad uses of technology.
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