NCAA athlete claims she was scolded by AI over message about women's sports

College volleyball player Macy Petty reacts to the U.S. House passing a bill that would ban biological males from competing in women's sports on 'Fox News @ Night.'

An NCAA volleyball player claims ChatGPT scolded her when she asked the artificial intelligence platform to shorten a tweet about the debate over transgender athletes participating in women's sports.

"I was trying to explain [in the tweet] that I'm an NCAA athlete, and that it's important to champion the voice of female athletes and to stand up against this ideological war that's going on that's putting women in danger and taking away the opportunities for scholarships," Macy Petty told Fox News Digital in a phone interview Thursday, explaining it was "a lot of information to cram in one tweet."

Petty said she is novice when it comes to using ChatGPT - OpenAI’s wildly popular chatbot that can mimic human conversation based on prompts - and had seen an Instagram reel touting the importance of using the platform as the future of technology. 

After watching the reel, Petty said she was presented with a great opportunity to use the system: Allegedly asking ChatGPT to shorten a tweet on women’s sports that had gone over the social media platform’s character limit. 

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 Lee University student athlete Macy Petty speaks during an event celebrating the House of Representatives passing The Protection Of Women And Girls In Sports Act outside the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Joe Biden has promised to veto the legislation, which defines sex as 'based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth' and would ban all