A student managed to use artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT to revoke a parking fine.
Millie Houlton, 22, from York, used the site to write up an email to the council which saw them revoke the £60 fine after the had parked over a yellow line.
Believing she wouldn’t be able to get her point across herself, Business management student Millie used the AI chatbot to conjure up a professionally worded email to appeal the fine.
Writing to ChatGPT asking it to help her write a letter to the council as they gave her a parking ticket and explained the situation, the AI came back with a polite response for Millie to send.
After being successful and getting the fine revoked – in true student style, Millie used her £60 and went on a student night out to celebrate.
‘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,’ she explained.
‘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,’
Millie said she came across ChatGPT mainly for work as I make content creation for businesses and realised she could use it for other aspects of her life.
She uses 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,’ she said.
‘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.’
Posting her video on TikTok of her ordeal, Millie has had lots of people asking her what ChatGPT is and how to use it.
‘I don’t think a lot of people know it’s a thing or how to utilise it properly, so now I make videos on how to use it as a student,’ she said. ‘I really didn’t expect the response I got on my TikTok, a lot of people have now seen it and are asking me what it is,’
‘So many people have said it’s a good idea and have loved my video.’
Millie is not the first person to use ChatGPT to talk their way out of a parking ticket.
Last month, a driver used ChatGPT to get his airport drop-off fine at Gatwick reduced from £100 to £15.
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