Surreal dream scene, cinematic and atmospheric, digital art: A futuristic cruise ship filled with diverse groups of people participating in experimental tasks for data collection, with passengers cautiously tending to rapid-growth plants in confined cabins, alongside a sliding cat struggling to find balance in a plastic litterbox, all set against a sterile, clinical atmosphere.

ChatGPT cruise using people as lab rats for data collection

Date: 10/16/2025

By randybobandy

I needed extra money so I attended a ChatGPT cruise where they use people as like testers for trying different prompts and products. They did this for data collection purposes and statistical studies. Participants were compensated. It was considered extremely lame and even maybe morally corrupt to do but participants were all people who desperately needed money. No one was proud to go, it was all kept quiet. I told someone else on the cruise “if this was around when I was a kid my dad definitely would have brought us every year.” I thought it was for one day and it turned out to be a week and I had no change of clothes or anything so I felt disgusting. I brought my cat but didn’t bring litter so he was unhappy. The ship’s movements made him slide around which he hated. He would try to stabilize himself by crouching in the empty litterbox but it was plastic so he would still slide. Everyone on the ship was categorized into groups. I was like in a praying mantis group. I had two random roommates, just strangers staying in the same room with me. We made money with each task we did for the company and I was set to make a huge payout by growing and protecting a supernaturally fast-growing rose bush in my room, but also we were allowed to steal on the ship so anyone could steal it from me and the task would become theirs. I tried to hide it but it was considered one of the most valuable tasks on the ship. We couldn’t do anything other than what was specifically assigned to us. We couldn’t even watch TV unless it was a specifically scheduled movie or show by the company and they would put a countdown on the TV showing when the next program was.