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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2023-person-hired-for-documentation-and-marketing-copy-says-employer-rejected-work-on-chatgpt-verdicts-then-fired-them-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"a guy hired me to work on his company's documentation and public facing marketing copy based on my years and years of experience","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says a man hired them, on the strength of years of experience, to work on his company's documentation and public-facing marketing copy.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"he then rejected my work day in and day out because chatgpt had told him it wasn't good because of hallucinated errors","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says he then rejected their work day after day because ChatGPT had told him it was not good, which the poster attributes to hallucinated errors.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of the employer's reliance on ChatGPT; the posts do not quote ChatGPT's output."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"on friday, i had a little meeting with him and the marketing manager and i was like hey, listen, this shit cannot continue, either you respect me as a person with skills and experience or im out. monday morning i was out","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"i got fired over email","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The poster says that after a Friday meeting with him and the marketing manager, at which the poster said they would leave unless their skills and experience were respected, they were out on Monday morning and were fired by email.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the dismissal followed the poster's ultimatum about the rejections."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"all the guy had to say was \"some people know how to work with me and some don't\". at least he paid me for two months of work upfront.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The poster says the employer's only explanation was that some people know how to work with him and some do not, and that he had paid the poster for two months of work upfront.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; context on the dismissal and payment."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"this was in 2023.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster dates these events to 2023.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."}],"effects":[{"label":"work rejected day after day on the strength of ChatGPT's assessments (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"fired by email after objecting to the rejections (poster's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhavyduiuipgxrvrg7o5ssy6/post/3my5zw7z3os2e","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-19 through the public Bluesky API (app.bsky.feed.getPostThread and the author's feed via getAuthorFeed, HTTP 200); no translation and no human reviewer. The poster's handle and display name are not recorded. Root post, 16:34 UTC 18 Oct 2026, quoting another user's prompt about short job tenures.","independence_group":"bluesky-documentation-copy-poster-chatgpt-review"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhavyduiuipgxrvrg7o5ssy6/post/3my5zzkuy7k2e","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-19 through the public Bluesky API (app.bsky.feed.getPostThread and the author's feed via getAuthorFeed, HTTP 200); no translation and no human reviewer. The poster's handle and display name are not recorded. The poster's own reply to s1 (16:36 UTC); same author, same source group.","independence_group":"bluesky-documentation-copy-poster-chatgpt-review"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhavyduiuipgxrvrg7o5ssy6/post/3my623mmjos2e","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-19 through the public Bluesky API (app.bsky.feed.getPostThread and the author's feed via getAuthorFeed, HTTP 200); no translation and no human reviewer. The poster's handle and display name are not recorded. The poster's own reply to s2 (16:37 UTC); same author, same source group.","independence_group":"bluesky-documentation-copy-poster-chatgpt-review"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["What the employer submitted to ChatGPT, what it said about the work and how the poster learned of its assessments.","What errors ChatGPT reported and whether any were real.","The employer's account of the rejections and the dismissal.","Where the poster and the company were, when in 2023 the events happened and how long the job lasted.","Whether the poster was an employee or a contractor."],"geography":{"basis":"The posts do not say where the poster or the company was located.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account, in three posts by one author, of an employer rejecting the author's work on the strength of ChatGPT's assessments and then dismissing the author after the author objected. Described with attribution and without corroboration; the poster's own ultimatum before the dismissal and the upfront payment are recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says the employer rejected their documentation and marketing copy day after day because ChatGPT had told him it was not good, and attributes ChatGPT's verdicts to hallucinated errors. That describes ChatGPT's output being used in the employer's decisions about the poster's work, which the poster connects to the dispute that ended with the poster's dismissal. The posts do not quote the output, say what was submitted to it or say how the poster learned what it said.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["informed_decision_about"]},"name":"First-person posts: person hired for documentation and marketing copy says employer rejected their work daily because ChatGPT called it poor, then fired them","summary":"In three linked Bluesky posts on 18 October 2026, written in answer to another user's call for stories of short job tenures, a person writes that a man hired them on the strength of years of experience to work on his company's documentation and public-facing marketing copy, and that he then rejected their work day after day because ChatGPT had told him it was not good. The poster attributes ChatGPT's verdicts to hallucinated errors. The poster says that after they told him and the marketing manager at a Friday meeting that this could not continue and that they would leave unless their skills and experience were respected, they were out by Monday morning, fired by email, and that he had paid them for two months of work upfront. The poster dates the events to 2023. The posts do not quote ChatGPT's output or say how the poster knew what it said, and the employer's account is not recorded. The account is uncorroborated.","incidentDate":"2023-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-18","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, which by the poster's account the employer consulted about the quality of the poster's documentation and marketing copy","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says the employer rejected their work day after day because ChatGPT said it was not good and then fired them by email after they objected (first-person account, uncorroborated; the poster says two months of work had been paid upfront).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, who did not use ChatGPT and was affected through the employer's use of it. No other worker is described.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhavyduiuipgxrvrg7o5ssy6/post/3my5zw7z3os2e","primarySourceLabel":"Bluesky post by the poster, 18 Oct 2026: employer rejected documentation and copy work because ChatGPT said it was not good","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-19T03:06:37.117164+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T03:06:37.117164+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","bluesky","workplace","chatgpt"]}]}