Cambridge (Massachusetts/USA) - The fact that pupils and students occasionally turn to AI to help them write essays is no longer unusual. However, the fact that some teachers also seem to rely on it is rather unusual.

This is apparently what happened recently at the elite Havard University. A young student there received an email from her professor, as a TikTok video from "music4life071" shows. The subject: "No university tomorrow."

So far, so good. But then the TikToker opened the email - and discovered an audio file inside. When she clicked on it, she was astonished.

Immediately, an electronic sound was heard and shortly afterwards an artificially generated voice began to sing: "Hey Fam, this is your teacher and I'm not feeling well. I'm coughing all the time, my head is going crazy. I'm not ghoste you, I just have a cold."

The student could hardly believe her ears, panned the camera around and shook her head in amazement.

Meanwhile, the AI voice continued to warble happily: "I wish I could teach you, but I'm snuggled up here. No lessons today, no kidding. I'm sipping my tea."

At the end of the pop song, she finally threatened her pupils: the young adults will be allowed to stay at home the next day. However, if they didn't behave themselves, a surprise test would soon be waiting for them.

"music4life071" then looked speechlessly into the camera. "I don't know how to react," she wrote about the clip. In the caption, she added: "All the students here are just confused."

Within a very short time, the video had already been clicked on more than 3.1 million times.

While countless users are having a great time laughing at the post and filling the comment column with smiles, the authenticity of the email unfortunately remains in doubt. One look at the profile of "music4life071" is enough to see: Apparently, the young woman receives such messages from her teachers almost every day.

It is therefore highly likely that this is just a sketch that has gone viral.