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Did I ever tell you all about the time someone introduced me, at a large event, with erroneous info because they had “asked” ChatGPT for my bio?
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This person also “asked ChatGPT” if another writer on the panel went by her middle name or her first initial plus middle name,” instead of just… asking her
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The other writer didn’t make it to the panel, unfortunately, but this person also mistook me for her (we are both Chinese American women)—even after I’d introduced myself—so it was *kind of* like she was there anyway
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This gets worse and worse
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I know, it was mortifying and I didn’t even DO anything
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So you went through the entire panel with everyone under the assumption that you were somebody else? I don’t blame you for being too stunned to correct her but she should be so embarrassed.
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Nonono, when I realized this person’s error (right before the panel) I corrected her, which was horribly embarrassing for both of us! I did have a fleeting thought that maybe I could just not say anything but then I realized that I couldn’t do the panel if she thought I was the other writer!
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(I meant I was embarrassed even though I wasn’t the one who made the mistake)
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Oh whew! I’m glad you got to do your panel under your own name!
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But really, you can kind of assume that it would from the beginning.