Picture of Millie Houlton's while Citroen car; Selfie of Millie Houlton
Student Millie Houlton.
  • A student used AI to write a letter to her council to contest a parking fine. 
  • She felt she'd been wrongly fined and wanted to save time by using ChatGPT to write the letter.
  • Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT are also being used to write news articles and novels.

A student in the UK used ChatGPT to get out of a £60 ($74.30) parking fine that she doesn't think should have been issued.

Millie Houlton told Insider that roadworks around where she lived meant she couldn't park her Citroën car in her usual spot, which she has a permit for, so she parked elsewhere on March 20 following guidance from a traffic warden. But she was issued a parking fine.