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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/firu600 on 2023-06-21 22:13:31+00:00.

I was a bridesmaid at my friend’s wedding. We are both working in tech and met in college in the 100 level computer science class. I wrote a heartfelt speech for the wedding but when googling more about bridesmaid speeches I found some hilarious articles about people having Chatgpt write their bridesmaid/groomsmen speeches for them. I showed my friend and asked if she would be ok if I ended the speech with something along the lines of “written by Chatgpt”. We laughed about it and she thought it was funny and agreed.

I made the speech and everything was fine. Then the groom took me aside and told me to explain I meant by the end of my speech to his mother. I was kind of confused and asked him why his mother doesn’t just Google it and he said she doesn’t really get technology. So I waited until the party was dying down and went over to his mother (he had pointed her out to me) and asked her what she wanted clarification on about what I said at the end of my speech.

The grooms mother then rounded on me and asked me why the bride would make me a bridesmaid if I was so lazy as not to write my own speech. I was shocked and told her I had written the speech but that it was an inside joke between the bride and me (and other techies in the audience) that Chatgpt was incapable of writing such a personal speech. She got really riled up and told me that she knows AI can now do writing work and that I was just lazy I couldn’t be bothered to do my own writing for a friend’s wedding and it “inappropriate”. I didn’t get what she was so offended about but apparently she made it a big deal to the bride that she had lazy friends and therefor it meant she was also lazy for using the computer instead of “working hard”. She assured me it was nothing on me but I feel kind of guilty I unintentionally caused some issues between the bride and the MIL.