[URGENT] ChatGPT prompt left in an email… what’s the next play?
Title says it all but I left the ChatGPT response in an email that my analyst wanted me to send to our MD. Said this ”Sure! Here’s a professional and concise draft you can send to your managing director about a new CIM (Confidential Information Memorandum)”. I sent it a few hours ago and now I’m sitting in my bed sweating. What do I even do in this situation? I’m kinda hoping the MD just doesn’t notice but then again the analyst is cc’d. Another issue is that the email referenced details (including company name) for the sell side we are working on and since we don’t have a proprietary AI platform, I instead used my school email so the analyst or MD is going to know I violated the no AI usage protocol. Coming here for urgent help. Do I say fuck it and FT recruit out of this MM shop? Or do I apologize?
ur cooked i can't lie
You're screwed. You cannot leak client info, that's like the first thing you are taught by HR for a reason (well, that and don't insider trading). You should be happy you aren't FT and licensed because in that case, you might've faced legal consequences.
Ask chat
This is genuinely so impressive, good thinking
dm me what it said, gestapo got to it before I could
Honestly, they might not even notice. If your firm has an internal AI like copilot you can say you used that but I think the other prompt someone suggested is a great idea. Just make sure to delete the old prompt
Have you tried recalling the email…?
Recalling the email may not work: https://www.beyondencryption.com/blog/recall-email-outlook
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/38811261?hl=en&msgid=38828187
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/recall-or-replace-a-sent-email-in-outlook-8e564127-15a0-4cf6-b974-f2101f5e256e
How idiots that require gpt to write emails get an internship in the first place is baffling.
Go and work at the big four.
The only idiotic thing here is not using a tool that quickens menial and low-intelligence tasks to improve productivity.
This is economics 101. You’ve never heard of comparative advantage?
A simple email, as OP described would take less than a minute. Typing in a prompt, to then edit would probably fit an equal time quantum.
HOWEVER, when you can’t even get that right, you should take a look in the mirror.
Your type is the most insufferable. How about the fact that I can tell you didn’t take the time to actually write your message to me? I and many others find it rude. Does your economic model include a rudeness variable? Rho could work nicely.
Na, in a world where soft skills are increasingly becoming the only differentiator, your voice is all that matters. Using ChatGPT to write otherwise trivial communication is insane.
The MS’s on your comment are from Big4 monkeys
I would definitely recall the email just in case he hasn't seen it, but inputting confidential info into a public AI model is one of the biggest no-nos out there. If you are using AI you should at least just ask it to write an email for the project name or just no name at all, zero reason client info should be in there.
This could be something you lose an offer over, yeah. I would definitely start warming your connections for FT
Sigh - ChatGPT making people dumber as per MIT’s report observed in real time. One of the most basic skills of being a working professional is knowing how to write a professional email…I do get AI use for truly mind numbing things like market research, trying to figure out model mechanics or excel formulas etc - but you can write a 5 sentence email without assistance?
Listen, take this on the chin but please deeply interrogate if your chosen AI usage is making you sharper or more insecure of being found out as fraudulent for subpar skills. Not being able to perform without AI is a key sign of which bucket you’re sitting in.
smartest chatgpt user (I had chat gpt summarize the MIT report on how stupid you all are to me because it was a little long, great service will probably start using it more often)
Man, when I was an intern I would check every fucking mail/message to anyone even close to MD four times. Not because I saw myself as the bitch that I was, but because I learned that the shit you do on that level should be at least not retarded. Seems like all the hate towards Gen Z is warranted to some degree.
Probably too late now but you would have been able to Recall the email (look up how to do that) right after sending.
Not really a big deal though. I can't see an MD really caring about an analyst using AI. I'd be more worried about your analyst that you CC'd being pissed / scared and leaving you a bad review. Just admit to them you fucked up in that and move on.
what happened OP update us!
They were fired and are in jail for leaking proprietary company secrets/IP to chatgpt. Insiders say the DOJ is investigating a RICO charge and fifty to many hundreds of years in prison. Front page of WSJ shit.
So funny 😂😂😑
Been meaning to get back to this, sorry man. Well to say the least, it’s not looking too hot. I did what was recommended and recalled the email but ofc my loser analyst saw it (the dude literally lives in his outlook). So I came in Sunday afternoon to finish some other work and, to my demise, there he was. He took me to a conference room and really gave it to me. Ngl a bit scary and now I’m not gonna be staffed on any other deals according to him. Worst of all, everyone knows and has been clowning me by calling me AI boy. I’d ask for advice but think it’s a bit too late for that. FT recruiting, here I come.
Hey man, we all make mistakes. Not justifying your actions, but just don't make the same mistake twice. I think we've all done something we regret, and I'm sorry everyone is clowning on you. That's pretty rude. When I was an analyst we had one of the interns try to sit in a MD's conference room when he was gone (dude got clowned on but got the return and is now a successful associate at a better firm). This may be the end of the chapter at this bank, but your career is a journey.
Honestly you're lucky this is it. You'd be pretty much insta-fired for this at my shop.
This reminded of my internship in a boutique law firm where i was checking the email to clients several times and even asking other interns to check and a small error made me internally panic a lot. Atb.
Since you're not getting fired for this, you should try spinning the story so it seems like you didn't enter client info in the prompt. Something like, "I asked ChatGPT for a template email and then filled in the template on my own. No client data was fed to ChatGPT." Just a thought.
Let me know if you want me to delete this comment after you read it.
Too late unfortunately cause I gave myself up. You are the man though. Keep doing good for other WSOers
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