Couple of months ago, I landed a job at a MNC. My boss, a nice guy in his late 50s, was openly proud about how he reached high level position without getting technology beyond basic emails and Excel sheets. But now he wanted a fresh techie to bring a new breeze to the team – hence, my role.
In the first few months, the tasks were ok, I cleaned up our CRM (on sheets), built some dashboards for the teams.
Then I used ChatGPT deep research to search about competitors and write drafts. What usually took the team three days, I could now do in two hours. My teammate called me a tech genius for that
I showed the design team the new chatGPT image and they still thank me until now for it . My boss said “I don’t know what you do, but keep it up!” No prob sir, I will continue asking chatGPT politely…
For meetings, I just let granola record it. For emails and notes, I’m too lazy to organize things so I set up a second brain called saner. Every time someone asked about meeting, emails, I just asked ai while they was still debating what was said. Do people not know this is possible?
My boss loved all of the results. He called me into his office and suggested I lead a training session to level up the rest of the team. I agreed, thinking how I’d basically be teaching everyone How to ask AI the right questions lol
Then yesterday. A coworker was demoing ChatGPT to another teammate during lunch. My boss happened to walk by and froze. I saw him stared at the screen and said, “Wait, is that what (myname) has been doing?”
Then he called into a meeting and said, “I trusted you. You made me look foolish bragging about your skills to clients and upper management. All your performance are from AI. You’re a liar.”
He genuinely believed that using AI to do the work was deceptive!? I tried explaining that it’s just a tool, like Excel but smarter, but he wasn’t convinced. Luckily, some of my teammates and upper management already knew what I was doing and actually supported it. But this still caught me off guard and I’m not sure how to deal with the boss moving forward.
TL;DR: Used AI to work, boss found out, feels betrayed, and thinks I’m a liar.
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You FUpped I am sorry! You still admitted it kinda though! But it makes sense that your boss feels betrayed!
The boss realised he was one AI hallucination away from tanking his business
Serves you right.
Mark Bauerlein was right.
Rip bozo
Was this post also AI?
I am sorry but you might want to start finding a job… This will always cause a lingering distrust in you
Not a goof; your boss is an idiot.
You need to learn how to use AI effectively or your job will go to someone who is proficient with AI in the very near future.
As long as all the information is correct, you’re good to go.
You didn’t FU. AI is the future, and knowing how to use AI as a tool is invaluable. You should still go ahead with the training, but add in content that differentiates the human factor over the AI content, especially things like how to not trust ai completely, or ai hallucinations, or how it all depends on the training data.
Your boss will be out of the job market in a few years, or sooner with that thinking.
And that AI’s name?
Albert Einstein
You should’ve been upfront about it. It sounds like you took credit for being an “tech genius” but simply asking GPT for answers doesn’t make that true. And ChatGPT doesn’t always get things right. Are you double-checking the results? Are you capable of double-checking the results? If you’re speeding up your own workflow that’s one thing, but if you’re using it to submit work that you don’t even really understand fully, that’s absolutely going to bite you in the butt.
Everyone in your meetings knows you’re recording them, right?
…RIGHT?
Besides just being common courtesy, you could seriously get in trouble if you’re not telling people you’re recording them.
LAMO, get fired
You have to tell your boss that his competitors are all going to start using AI to outcompete him. You can train the company to have super powers or you can let your competitors outcompete you. Does he let his finance department use calculators or is that cheating too?
The question is: did you fine tune the documents or just submit it raw?
what a bizarre bunch of replies. look at the shell-shocked by the AI explosion, perfect example of people left behind by innovation. Salty because so many have nothing to offer in terms of skill other than labour.
Technically, being asked to train your colleagues is something I would take issue with, Im more than happy to help a teammate, but to train the whole department -unless that’s in your job description – its not something you should be concerned with. Maybe you should have instead had the AI explain its process, and expressed that in your own words, I dont think that’s deceptive; people are irrational and dogmatic. You did FU but not by being ahead on tech, but by handing your advantage without properly illustrating your part in harnessing it.