An artificially intelligent chatbot named ChatGPT assisted a Canadian programmer in getting his money back from a client who wouldn't pay him. Greg Isenberg posted a message on Twitter about his use of ChatGPT.
The opening lines of his Twitter thread read, "Imagine a multi-billion dollar client who refused to pay you for good work rendered. Most people would turn to lawyers. I turned to ChatGPT. Here's the story of how I recovered $109,500 without spending a dime on legal fees."
Mr Isenberg mentioned in his post that his company created designs for a well-known brand. He stated that the services left the company impressed. Furthermore, he revealed that the brand began ghosting Mr Isenberg's team after their communication abruptly stopped, NDTV reported.
"Our finance and operations team asked me to step in. Instead of sending another email that might fall on deaf ears or hiring an expensive lawyer to initiate debt collections, I had an idea. What if ChatGPT could draft a bit more of a scary email to draw attention?" Isenberg added.
"Pretend you work in the finance department and your job is to collect payments from clients. Draft a scary email that gets XYZ client to pay for $109,500 of services rendered but hasn't responded to 5 emails. Their invoices are 5 months overdue," he added.
He added that no one had ever totally neglected them on payments despite the fact that their design firm had completed hundreds of projects worth millions of dollars in engineering and design.
Instead of hiring a lawyer, he said in the Twitter thread that he used ChatGPT to help him write a scary email that would grab the brand's attention. He claimed that ChatGPT will cost him nothing, in contrast to the at least $1,000 cost of a lawyer issuing legal notice.
The text was modified slightly by Mr Isenberg before being sent. After sending the letter, he claimed to be anxious, but he soon received a reply from a company executive that read: "Let's get you guys paid."
"Thanks to ChatGPT, we were able to recover the money we were owed We couldn't believe how quickly it worked Best part was ChatGPT felt like the bad cop, and I felt like the good cop," he wrote.
The incident made him consider how many of our professional services are likely to be automated in the future, and while he was pleased with ChatGPT's quick fix, he also mentioned this in his thread.
He asked, "How much of professional services will be automated with AI? How much of companies current business processes can be automated with AI? Is it 5%, 25%, 50%, or more?"