Student slapped with a £60 parking fine uses ChatGPT to write an appeal letter – and gets the penalty REVOKED
A student used the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to revoke a parking fine that was issued even though she had a permit.
Millie Houlton, 22, from York, used the bot to write an email to the council, which then revoked the £60 fine.
Believing she wouldn’t be able to get her point across herself, business management student Millie used the AI chatbot to create a professionally worded email to appeal against the fine.
When she asked ChatGPT to help her write a letter to the council, the AI came back with a polite response for Millie to send.
After successfully getting the fine revoked, in true student style Millie used her £60 and went on a night out to celebrate.
She explained: ‘I believe I wouldn’t have been able to word it the way ChatGPT did. Without it I probably wouldn’t have had it taken it back.
‘I was relieved as I’m a student. I don’t want to spend £60 if I can avoid it. I was so pleased I could find a tool that can assist in putting thoughts into words in a professional manner.
‘I came across ChatGPT mainly for work as I make content creation for businesses and I realised I could use it for other aspects of my life too.
‘I use it for photo captions and emails as well as everything else now.
‘I feel like the parking ticket was given to me wrongfully and I’m not good at putting points across on paper, so I used ChatGPT and it worked to appeal it.
‘My friends have already started using it now to help them write letters, too.
‘It’s just a matter of knowing your problem, telling ChatGPT and then it just puts it all into words in a professional way.
‘If you can use it in the right way it’s really good, although I have heard some horror stories.
‘I think if you know how to use it, it can give some good answers.
‘Everyone is talking about ChatGPT at the moment but I don’t think people would know to use it in this sense and revoke a parking fine.’
Source: daily mail
Student slapped with a £60 parking fine uses ChatGPT to write an appeal letter – and gets the penalty REVOKED