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Scammed by Chatbot University

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Campus

Face Slapping

Karma

Bias

Childhood Sweethearts

Ruthless

Reborn

Feel-Good Story

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Even though the prettiest girl in my class, Phoebe Jones, bombed her college entrance exams, she claimed she had gotten into the prestigious Pemberton University and was just waiting for orientation day. She even guaranteed she could get the whole class in, too. Everyone erupted in cheers, put her up on the class podium, and lined up to hand over their applications. Something did not sit right with me, so I asked a few questions. Her 'exclusive enrolment channel' turned out to just be an AI chatbot called Babble. Babble had promised her it had reserved exclusive spots at Pemberton and guaranteed she would be registered by the start of the term. I tried to warn everyone that it was just an AI telling her what she wanted to hear, but my childhood friend was the first to jump to her defense. "Maren, how could you think that about Phoebe? She's doing this for the whole class. What's your problem?" My best friend added, "Maren, AI is the way of the future. You can't just dismiss it because you don't get it." That was all it took to turn the whole class against me. They pushed me around until I tumbled down the stairs, cracked my head open, and died on the spot. When I opened my eyes, I was back at the moment Phoebe announced she had gotten into Pemberton. I could not save people who were hell-bent on their own destruction, so this time, I wished them nothing but the best.

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The splitting pain in the back of my skull still seemed to linger at every nerve ending. I snapped my eyes open and gasped for air.

The classroom was drowning in cheers.

"Phoebe, that's insane! You barely passed your exams and still got into Pemberton? You're literally our savior!"

"Only the prettiest girl in class could have such an exclusive insider connection like that!"

"Please, please, please take me with you! I want to get into Pemberton too!"

I sat drenched in cold sweat, staring at the scene unfolding before me, familiar yet completely absurd.

Phoebe Jones, a girl who could not even solve a quadratic equation on her best day, held up her brand-new iPhone from the classroom podium with a look of smug triumph plastered across her face.

On the screen was an AI chatbot interface.

I had returned to the past, two hours before my death.

"Line up, everyone! One at a time!" Phoebe basked in the adoration, her voice dripping with sweetness.

"I paid top dollar to unlock Babble's premium tier. It already guaranteed me that all you have to do is send it your ID number, and it'll lock in an exclusive enrollment spot at Pemberton for you."

A handful of students who actually had decent grades held on to a shred of sense and spoke up cautiously.

"Phoebe, is an AI really reliable? W-what if it doesn't go through? These are our real exams we're talking about!"

My childhood friend, Gavin Holt, jumped in like a guard dog let off its leash the moment someone dared question the girl he worshipped.

"What do you people know? It's literally called ‘artificial intelligence’! It's the way of the future! Phoebe's being generous enough to share something this valuable with all of you, yet you have the nerve to doubt her?"

Phoebe's eyes reddened with a wounded look, and she tapped her phone with a pout. "Fine! If you don't believe me, I'll just ask Babble myself."

Babble replied within seconds, a wall of text filling the screen.

Phoebe hit the text-to-speech button, and a robotic female voice echoed through the silent classroom.

"Dear user, please rest assured. This system has gained full access to Pemberton University's internal admissions network. Should you fail to enroll as scheduled, our company will compensate you $5 million in emotional damages. We have a top-tier team of hackers working to ensure your success."

The classroom erupted the moment they heard ‘$5 million’.

"Holy crap! $5 million! So even if I don't get into Pemberton, I’ll walk away with $5 million? That's a win-win situation!"

"Phoebe, sign me up! I don't even care about getting in. I just want the $5 million!"

"Exactly! Even if I don't get in, $5 million would have me set for life!"

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10 Chapters
Chapter 1
The splitting pain in the back of my skull still seemed to linger at every nerve ending. I snapped my eyes open and gasped for air.The classroom was drowning in cheers."Phoebe, that's insane! You barely passed your exams and still got into Pemberton? You're literally our savior!""Only the prettiest girl in class could have such an exclusive insider connection like that!""Please, please, please take me with you! I want to get into Pemberton too!"I sat drenched in cold sweat, staring at the scene unfolding before me, familiar yet completely absurd.Phoebe Jones, a girl who could not even solve a quadratic equation on her best day, held up her brand-new iPhone from the classroom podium with a look of smug triumph plastered across her face.On the screen was an AI chatbot interface.I had returned to the past, two hours before my death. "Line up, everyone! One at a time!" Phoebe basked in the adoration, her voice dripping with sweetness."I paid top dollar to unlock Babble'
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Chapter 2
Looking at the frenzy that had consumed my classmates, all I felt was the absurdity of it all.Babble had merely generated a meaningless block of text, yet an entire class of high school seniors believed it wholeheartedly.When the excitement hit its peak, Gavin jumped onto the podium. Eager to show off in front of Phoebe, he shouted out a suggestion so reckless that it bordered on deranged."Listen up! Since Phoebe's already used AI to lock in our spots at Pemberton, that official government application portal is completely useless to us now!"So, to prove we trust Phoebe, and to celebrate the fact that our entire class is about to walk through Pemberton's gates together, I say we do this!"Every single one of us will change our application to Pinewood Vocational College in the official system!"The classroom went dead silent for a second.The official system was serious business. Once a selection was changed, there was no taking it back.Phoebe saw the room’s hesitation and i
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Chapter 3
I looked at the mob closing in on me and took a deep breath.If I pushed back now, I was sure what had happened in my last life would happen again.This time around, I did not just want to watch them crash and burn. I needed to keep myself safe while it happened.Besides, none of them knew that students on national scholarships had their records handled outside of the regular application system.As the gold medalist in this year’s National Physics Olympiad, I had been personally selected by Pemberton's dean for guaranteed admission. My file had been pulled into Pemberton's system long ago.Even if I put Cloverfield Community College in the portal, my records were already sitting safe and sound in Pemberton's admissions office.I put on my best frightened look, bit my lip, and let a flicker of ‘surrender’ cross my face."Fine, I'll change it. But I can't bring myself to do it. Gavin, you do it for me."I gave him my username and password.Gavin let out a smug, triumphant scoff,
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Chapter 4
Soon, September 1st arrived. It was the perfect day for a reality check.Autumn had settled over the city with crisp, clear skies. The towering gates of Pemberton University buzzed with activity as freshmen and their parents flooded in from every direction.I was wheeling my suitcase toward the main plaza when I spotted a scene that stopped me in my tracks.All 42 of them were there, decked out in cheap knockoff Pemberton t-shirts they had bulk-ordered online, crowding the entrance to the freshman check-in lane in one enormous herd.Phoebe stood at the front, face flushed red, in a heated argument with the security guards and the orientation volunteers."Can you even use the system? I told you, we were approved through an internal channel! All we have to do is scan our IDs, and we're in!"She stomped her foot and slammed her ID card on the table.The volunteer manning the verification desk, a senior student drenched in sweat, held on to his patience and tried to explain."Look,
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Chapter 5
My acceptance letter, decorated with Pemberton's signature purple, shone brightly under the sunlight. Every single one of my former classmates flinched at the sight of it.I paid no attention to the looks on their faces, each one staring at me as though they had seen a ghost, and handed my letter and ID to the senior volunteer who had been sweating through his shirt moments ago.He took the letter and ran it under the scanner.The scanner beeped once, and the screen flashed green.The exhaustion on his face vanished, instantly replaced by an eager smile. "Oh, you're Maren Caldwell! Your advisor already told us about you. You're a guaranteed-admission scholar, so there's a priority lane set up for you. Follow me!"The security guard dropped his mocking expression just as fast, pulled back the barrier rope for me, and even gave me a respectful nod.This seamless, red-carpet treatment left all 42 people on the other side of the barrier standing in stunned silence.The air went comp
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Chapter 6
All 42 of them surged forward like a mob, clawing and shoving, trying to break through the security line to get to me.The guards jumped and grabbed their radios. "Requesting backup at the main gate! We have a group of possibly unhinged individuals trying to storm the entrance!"I stood on the other side of the barrier, watching the twisted fury on their faces, and could not help but laugh."Phoebe, is there anything between your ears besides sawdust?"I crossed my arms and looked down at her."I stole your spots? Do you think Pemberton is a flea market where admissions can just be packaged up and moved around? You’ll believe whatever an AI tells you. If it told you I was the Queen, would you kneel?""Don't you dare try to talk your way out of this!"Gavin jabbed a finger in my face and screamed. "Babble already gave us the proof, yet you're still denying it! Security, you need to arrest this thief right now! That acceptance letter in her hand belongs to Phoebe!"The crowd of f
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Chapter 7
"What’s going on here? It's the first day of the semester, and you've already turned the front gate into a circus?" Chancellor Edmund Hollister frowned slightly as he surveyed the students sprawled on the ground in their knockoff t-shirts.Gavin was the first to rush at him, carrying himself like a loyal subject who had suffered a grave injustice."Chancellor Hollister! Thank God you're here! You have to help us!"He snatched Phoebe's phone and shoved the chatbot interface in the chancellor's face."Look at this! This is the evidence we have! There's a mole in your admissions office who transferred all forty-two of our internally approved spots to one person, Maren Caldwell!"Phoebe threw herself into the performance right behind him, sobbing. "Chancellor Hollister, we're all outstanding students. You can't let some hacker and thief destroy a hundred years’ worth of Pemberton's reputation!"Chancellor Hollister squinted at the Babble chat window on the screen, then looked at the
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Chapter 8
Chancellor Hollister waved his hand. "Security, escort them off the premises. If they cause any more trouble, hand them over to the police."Over a dozen guards moved in immediately and herded all 42 of them out of the plaza without an ounce of sympathy, pushing and shoving them through the gate like stray animals.Under the unblinking lenses of countless phone cameras, the entire class was driven out beyond Pemberton's gates and deposited on the curb of the road across the street.The sun beat down on them. Their knockoff Pemberton t-shirts looked even more pathetic and ridiculous than ever."It's over... It's all over..."One of the boys, someone whose grades would have easily gotten him into a good university, broke down sobbing. "I could've gotten into a real school! My parents are at home waiting for the good news. How am I supposed to face them?"Reality had finally sunk in. After twelve years of grinding through school, Phoebe Jones had destroyed all of it for them.In th
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Chapter 9
Just as that boy's father had said, someone had filmed the entire scene at Pemberton and posted it online. It hit the top of the trending page that same day.[Unbelievable! 42 High School Students Storm Pemberton with AI Chat Logs, Claim System Was Hacked!][The Tragedy of Modern Education: They Trust AI Gibberish Over Acceptance Letters!]Every major news outlet picked it up and ran with it. The comment sections were flooded with mockery from one end of the internet to the other.They had not just lost their shot at college. They had become the biggest joke in the entire country.A few days later, the so-called ‘future Pemberton freshmen’ were dragged home from the city by their parents, tails between their legs. What awaited them was the wrath of every adult in their lives and a bottomless pit of despair.The Jones household had already been reduced to a war zone.A brick sailed through the floor-to-ceiling window of the Jones family's villa, and glass exploded across the floo
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Chapter 10
Gavin was hiding at home at that very moment, still fantasizing about how he could help Phoebe through this crisis.The front door was kicked open. Several furious fathers rushed in, pinned Gavin to the ground, and beat him senseless without a word."You little sh*t! You wanted to impress a girl, so you sacrificed my son's future to do it?""Playing the big romantic hero? You destroyed over forty families! You can pay for it with your life!"Gavin was beaten until he could barely see straight, howling for help. "Dad! Mom! Help me! They're going to kill me!"Gavin's parents looked at the mob of parents with murder in their eyes, then at the list of compensation demands that added up to tens of millions of dollars. They went white with terror.They were an ordinary working-class family. They did not have that kind of money.Gavin's father stared down at the son who had brought catastrophe on the entire family, and something cold and final settled in his eyes.He stormed into the
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