'[I] hit send...everyone in the room and on the call started laughing': Husband tries to write apology to his wife the lazy way, humiliates himself in front of coworkers

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    Font - TIFU - Using ChatGPT to apologize to my wife. M This one is going to be mild compared to some of the soup sandwiches that pop up in this thread, but I think it's worth sharing nonetheless.
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    Font - So there is a lot that has been piling up for the family the last couple weeks. My wife's work has been sand one of her direct reports just quit yesterday. We are having a huge family Easter gathering on Saturday and I purchased tickets to go to a sporting event on Friday. On Saturday, we are flying out for a week long family vacation. My wife is the "planner" of the family and I pretty much just wait to be told what the plans are and then I execute them. Due to the levels of stress leadi
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    Font - Got to work this morning and we started texting back and forth, everything seems to be patched up and worked out. A lot of stress and tension going on, we both needed a good vent. It's over with, back to normal.
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    Font - Now the f up. After the last text between her and I, I head off to my daily morning stand up meeting. There are about 12 of us in the meeting, half in the room, the other half working remote. Everyone just goes around the room and gives a quick, < 5 minute, status update on the progress on their project they have made, ask questions, provide details on any roadblocks they have run into. Still having the argument fresh in my mind, I had tuned out of the meeting and went to ChatGPT and thou
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    Font - I then sat there for a few seconds waiting for the response to come back from the AI, but nothing...just a blank screen....and then.... everyone in the room and on the call started laughing. I look closer to realize that I hadn't typed it into ChatGPT, I'd typed it into the Teams chat box for the meeting I was just in.
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    Font - TL;DR - Asked ChatGPT to write my wife an apology letter, unknowingly submitted it to my team meeting chat.
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    Organism - jrprov1+1 . 1 day ago A new twist on the old, "mistakenly replied to all" on an email intended for only one person!
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    Font - Discrete Ferret Just when I thought technology couldn't make relationships more complicated. This is why I stick to old-fashioned love letters.
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    Font - gosti 500 21 hr. ago "Hey, write a love letter to my wife. Write in cursive and use my writing style "(insert photo of random words, written by me)
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    Font - pinalbakulagr1 - 1 day ago LOL, that's a new one. But did it work though? Asking for a friend. Reply Share 3 +3 23 hr. ago We had already gotten over the argument, actual apologies were already made. This was just a joke, hence the "make it sound like Samuel Jackson wrote it" Breakfast Beerz OP
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    Font - wankidd 10 hr. ago oh this wasn't as big of a TIFU as I thought it would be
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    Font - +3.8 hr. ago This did not take the turn I was expecting, but I'm glad it went where it did IceFire909
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    Font - faux glove 14 hr. ago Please don't apologize to your wife through ChatGPT. You're dramatically over-estimating how cute, funny and endearing the concept is. It's lazy, lacks genuine emotion, and smacks of being unwilling to make the apology yourself.
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    Font - Billaue57 7 hr. ago Yeah also I have no idea what kind of relationship you are all in. But my companion would definitely tell if my way of writing would be different.

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