ChatGPT can do virtually anything — including getting you unlimited free McDonald’s meals.
A so-called “millionaire” businessman bragged on a podcast that he’s used ChatGPT to scam McDonald’s into giving him 100 free meals by utilizing the unreal intelligence system to generate fake complaints.
Gage, co-host of All Things The Podcast and owner of re-selling group All Things Arbitrage, claimed that he “steals receipts from tills or tables” and uses their unique code to open up a McDonald’s feedback survey.
“Should you just put you’re highly dissatisfied with each answer after which use ChatGPT — you only type in something like, ‘Write a few time that I had a horrible experience at McDonald’s where I ordered a Big Mac and make it under 1,200 characters,’” the 22-year-old Amazon seller said in an episode.
“Copy that, you paste in … it’s normally really bad. And if it’s not bad enough, you would possibly type, ‘Make it worse,’” he continued. “You punch that in, fill in an email, boom. In, like, 12 hours, a representative will send you an email with one, two, or three or 4 meal vouchers completely totally free.”
He claimed to have tricked the fast-food chain into giving him 100 vouchers in only nine months, adding that it “tastes higher when it’s free.”
Within the clip, which has recently gone viral and racked up greater than 17,300 views, Gage admitted that he’s been doing this “for the reason that start of the yr” — which, considering the podcast was originally recorded in November 2023, would mean the beginning of 2023.
He shared that the local McDonald’s “knows him” and won’t give him a receipt for anything.
“They’ve plastered posters up all over the place saying, ‘Please fill within the survey and put highly satisfied,’” Gage said.
His co-host, Ben Wright, quipped that it should be the worst-rated McDonald’s location within the UK.
But Gage claimed, “It doesn’t harm anyone. I’m not mentioning any names — it’s just purely to get the meal voucher.”
People within the comments of the clip on YouTube weren’t joyful with Gage’s hack.
“‘It doesn’t harm anyone.’ It would when McDonald’s shut down that branch since it’s had hundreds of bad reviews because someone is simply too low-cost to purchase a 99p burger,” one person wrote.
“It does harm people, though. McDonald’s obviously goal their franchisees and if customer satisfaction drops below a certain threshold then they risk losing the franchise,” one other said.
“This guy is what’s fallacious with this generation! These poor minimum wage staff getting threats to be fired due to his fraudulent accounts,” someone wrote.