# I think I screwed up by using ChatGPT too vigorously at my freelance work

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-screwed-up-by-using-chatgpt-too-vigorously-at-my-freelance-work/984637/18 "2023-05-26T20:05:31Z")

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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> The Polls thread?

No, here’s the one I saw:

> [@The next page in the book of AI evolution is here, powered by GPT 3.5, and I am very, nay, extremely impressed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-page-in-the-book-of-ai-evolution-is-here-powered-by-gpt-3-5-and-i-am-very-nay-extremely-impressed/975945/1473):
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> Before ChatGPT, I was making maybe $14/hour doing freelance video-transcription work. Now I’m making $50-60 an hour. The AI bot is doing most of my work for me. (I’m paid by length of video transcribed, not by hourly rate.) However, at some point, the jig will probably be up when my bosses demand an explanation as to how I’m transcribing a more-than-humanly-possible amount of words (over 20,000 per day.)

Bye-bye jig.

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