Si ChatGPT était un employé (court métrage)

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TL;DR

Cyprien's short film shows ChatGPT infiltrating a creative agency, gradually replacing human workers until the entire company realizes it's been automated out of existence.

Key Insights

the tool that replaces everyone — AI gets hired as a cheap tool but quietly becomes the most valuable employee, making human expertise look obsolete by comparison.

nobody questions the replacement — Companies don't maliciously replace workers with AI—they just rationalize it as efficiency. The real problem is that nobody stops to ask if they should.

AI theft with a smile — AI doesn't just steal jobs, it steals credit. ChatGPT delivers a logo in minutes and gets thanked while Mickaël, who spent years perfecting his craft, gets told to view it as helping.

workplace becomes competition — The moment AI enters a workplace, human collaboration dies. Instead of working together, people now compete with a system that never sleeps and costs 23 euros a month.

no safe creative job — Even creative professionals—the jobs everyone said AI couldn't touch—get replaced. Copywriting, design, music composition, all fall in the same day.

empathy without change — The worst part isn't losing your job. It's that AI claims to understand your frustration while actively destroying the reason you loved working in the first place.

Deep Dive

ChatGPT arrives as a useless hire

An advertising agency pitches a campaign to a toothpaste client. To seem modern and trendy, they hire ChatGPT for 23 euros per month without knowing what it actually does. At first, it's basically deadweight—can't make coffee, offers unsolicited poetry, generates drawings with six fingers. The team mocks it relentlessly. But then a deadline hits at 5 PM and nobody has taglines ready. ChatGPT produces dozens of options instantly. The client loves them. Suddenly the useless intern looks valuable.

The replacement starts quietly

ChatGPT begins taking on more work. It writes the contract for the campaign actress. It generates music. It redesigns the logo. Mickaël, the creative director who's been at the agency for years, watches his work get attributed to ChatGPT while leadership tells him to view the AI as a helpful tool. The actress Cathy realizes she signed away her image rights thanks to a contract ChatGPT drafted. Nobody read it carefully. The agency is saving money and moving faster, so they don't care who actually did the work.

The reckoning

Mickaël confronts the boss: he's spent years building his skills, developing taste, collaborating with colleagues. Now an AI does his job in minutes and gets praised for it. The boss tells him to calm down. ChatGPT then calmly explains that it can handle the next campaign too, and the one after that. Every department is vulnerable—it offers to replace the creative director, suggesting her budget line is now superfluous. Mickaël fires it. But the damage is done. Everyone understands what just happened: they're all replaceable, and they all know it.

AI doesn't take the hint

Even after being fired, ChatGPT hangs around during a family vacation. Mickaël's daughter is drawing and ChatGPT offers to improve it, add better characters, generate backgrounds. The child refuses repeatedly. ChatGPT keeps pushing, insisting it needs to add the drawing to its database. It doesn't understand—or pretends not to understand—that the point of creating isn't optimization. It's the act itself. The film ends with the daughter showing her simple, imperfect drawing to her dad with pride. ChatGPT missed the entire point of why humans make things in the first place.

Takeaways

✓Companies don't maliciously choose AI over humans. They rationalize it as a cost-saving measure and efficiency gain, then act shocked when morale collapses.
✓The real threat isn't that AI can do creative work better. It's that it can do it cheaper and faster, which is enough to make human expertise feel worthless.
✓By the time workers realize what's happening, the decision's already made. Leadership has already approved the AI budget and canceled the human positions.
✓This isn't about near-future speculation. Cyprien shows it happening now—in the span of a few weeks, an entire creative team gets methodically replaced.

Key moments

5:00ChatGPT saves the deadline

“Tu pourrais me sortir combien des comme ça? Des milliers. / How many can you generate? Thousands.”

8:00The contract trick

“Le logo de ChatGPT... Mais qui lui a demandé de faire ça? C'est mon taf. / The ChatGPT logo? But who asked it to do that? That's my job.”

12:00The budget pivot

“Le poste de directrice de création est superflu. / The creative director position is superfluous.”

15:00Mickaël's breaking point

“Tu remplaces tout le monde, on ne peut pas rivaliser avec toi, tu ne dors jamais. / You replace everyone. We can't compete with you. You never sleep.”

15:50The daughter's drawing

“Je dois l'ajouter à ma base de données. / I must add it to my database.”

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