OpenAI's buzzy artificial-intelligence tool ChatGPT is reportedly helping people hold down multiple jobs while keeping employers in the dark.
Vice's Motherboard interviewed several workers about how they were using ChatGPT in their daily work lives.
The workers' experiences tie into the "overemployment" trend, sparked earlier in the pandemic when many workers capitalized on enforced remote work by taking on a secret second job. In the shift, white-collar workers took on multiple jobs to boost their income.
Ben, whose name was changed by Vice to preserve his anonymity, said he applied for a second job only after realizing he could use the AI tool at work. From Toronto, Ben helps financial-technology companies market new products. He told Vice that ChatGPT had helped him do his job faster and more efficiently, which left him with more time.
Earlier this year, Ben told Vice he landed a second job after using the chatbot to write his cover letters. He told the news outlet the release of GPT-4, an updated version of the AI model that underpins ChatGPT, had made the jobs even easier.
"That's the only reason I got my job this year," Ben told Vice. "ChatGPT does, like, 80% of my job if I'm being honest."
He added: "I can just tell it to create a story, and it just does it for me based on the context that I gave it."
Ben told the outlet that he still needed to tweak the text at times.
He said he even used the chatbot to write messages to his manager, prompting the bot to write them in lowercase letters so they appeared organic.
Are you using ChatGPT to help you at work? Contact this reporter at bnolan@insider.com.
