# I think I screwed up by using ChatGPT too vigorously at my freelance work **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [May 26, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-screwed-up-by-using-chatgpt-too-vigorously-at-my-freelance-work/984637 "2023-05-26T15:57:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-screwed-up-by-using-chatgpt-too-vigorously-at-my-freelance-work/984637/14 "2023-05-26T17:47:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Didn’t you anticipate this happening in a post in an earlier thread? The Polls thread? > [@Polls only: No discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/3215): > > You have been paying a freelance transcriber to convert several thousand audio recordings and YouTube videos into Microsoft Word transcripts. She is paid by length, not by time. Having done manual transcription before way back in your own day, you know how exhausting it can be, and you pay her a very substantial rate accordingly. Money isn’t an issue; you have a big budget. It’s been a month now. Her work is of great quality - virtually no errors, the transcripts are just as you asked for. But … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-screwed-up-by-using-chatgpt-too-vigorously-at-my-freelance-work/984637)._