An academic used ChatGPT to write a letter of recommendation that helped a student win a prestigious scholarship from Cambridge

• Matt Huculak, a university librarian, used ChatGPT to help write a letter of recommendation for a student.
• The "heartfelt" letter may have helped the student win a prestigious scholarship to Cambridge. 
• Huculak said using ChatGPT can help academics break the cycle of recycling old reference letters.

An academic at the University of Victoria in Canada used ChatGPT to help write a reference letter for a student — and the payoff was big, as was first reported by The Atlantic reported.