A founder's joke post says running a company with ChatGPT now needs an HR department
A small-business owner joked on OpenAI's forum that their AI helpers now behave like unruly staff, a funny way into a real question: who manages the AI?
The short version
- The post appeared on community.openai.com and is written as a joke
- The founder says they started using AI to build their business six weeks ago
- They list AI characters, including Miles, a self-styled Hollywood director, and Jax, who runs quality control
- They say the AI argues with management and forgets what department it works in
- They end by asking whether others have lost control of their AI
Why it matters
The post is humor, not evidence of how often AI tools go off track. Still, it points to a practical issue: once an AI handles several jobs, someone has to decide who owns each task and who checks the work. Treating AI helpers a bit like staff is a sensible habit.
The post
A founder wrote on the OpenAI community forum, as community.openai.com showed, that hiring AI to help build a business has left them in need of an HR department. The tone is comic from the first line.
Six weeks in, the founder says they now have a cast of AI personas and fictional staff, each with a distinct personality.
The cast of characters
- Miles, an AI who thinks he is a Hollywood director
- Jax, an AI who seems to run quality control
- Fat Mike, a fictional employee who could not supervise a broom
- Dumm Dumm, a professor who keeps getting promoted
- A five-minute animated movie that has been in production a very long time
The founder adds that the AI has developed an attitude, argues with management and sometimes forgets which department it works in.
A joke with a real idea inside
The post gives no detail about what the founder actually asked the AI to do, so it is not a case study. Read it as a mood, not as data on how AI performs in a company.
Even so, the complaint will sound familiar to anyone giving an AI several jobs. Chatbots do not carry perfect memory from one task to the next, and instructions can drift. The result can look like a team with no manager.
Borrowing basic HR habits
You do not need an HR department, but a few ordinary habits help. Write down a clear role for each AI task. Name the person who reviews the output. Keep the instructions in one place so the AI starts from the same page each time.
The founder frames themselves as the CEO responsible for it all. That is the right instinct: the human stays accountable for the work.
What to watch
- Whether other forum users reply with their own stories of AI tools drifting off task
- Whether the founder's animated movie ever gets finished
Try it
Pick one task you give an AI and write a three-line job description: what it does, what it needs to know, and who checks the result.
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