Australian CEO Slammed For Using AI To Brag About First-Class Flight Ticket
The rage-inducing social media post featured photos of their luxurious experience, including his father lounging in a private pod, enjoying the food and drinks.
A man who claims to be a CEO and founder faced massive backlash online after sharing a post about flying first class on an Emirates flight with his father. Australian Jake Bass, in his 20s, compiled this self-congratulatory, motivational post with the help of the popular AI tool. The rage-inducing social media post featured photos of their luxurious experience, including his father lounging in a private pod, enjoying the food and drinks and showing off their top-notch accessories. In a social media post, he wrote, “Just flew my dad with me to Dubai. First class. Emirates. $50,000 flight. (A world away from the $1,200 I used to pay in the economy.) 470 passengers. Only 2 in First Class—us."
“I sat there thinking—what made our journey so different from the 468 behind us? Then I saw the pilot adjust our course by just 1° to avoid turbulence. Barely noticeable… But hours later, we were far off the original path. That’s when it clicked: Just a slight change in direction … changes everything," he added.
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Speaking with the New York Post, Bass later revealed that he used ChatGPT to craft his post for maximum engagement. He said, “I say what I believe, and I get ChatGPT to work controversially," adding that he uses the technology “as a tool to help me configure my words to be viral for the algorithm." “It’s the algorithm that makes me sound like a douche."
However, Bass underlined that he strongly agrees with the sentiment. “To be completely honest, I don’t think what I said was wrong at all. I shared a perspective — one that challenges people to reflect on their own choices, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. That’s really what this is about: most people don’t want to be reminded that they’ve settled," he added.
His social media post quickly went viral, with hundreds of people flooding his comments with enraged responses. “Nobody buying your course lil bro," a user wrote, while another added, “You sound insufferable." Bass then reacted to his original post, stating that a “lot of people are upset" and offering to fly one person anywhere in the world if they followed him on X, the Post reported.
Bass saw the viral backlash as proof he was “doing something right", according to his Instagram Story. He disputed being labelled as “entitled," noting that those who know him are aware that he isolated himself for five years, working hard and avoiding social media. “This life was earned," he shared on Instagram. Bass revealed he used ChatGPT to write the tweet — to intentionally “trigger emotion, create division, and spark mass engagement." "
Our plan worked perfectly," Bass told the bot, responding in a subsequent update to the initial post. Bass tried to copy the formula a few days ago with another post from the Emirates First Class lounge, sharing he had another epiphany while watching people board economy.
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