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It can generate seemingly plausible replies, but lacks the ability to assess truthfulness or the accuracy of its responses.

And when the boy replies, “I won’t,” it’s the first time in the book he sets himself apart from his brothers, switching from “we” to “I.”

If they say, “We are educators and the world ain’t round”, you can reply: “Ain’t is bad English.

ChatGPT and its counterparts are sophisticated sentence completion apps that analyse our patterns of communication and provide responses similar to the way humans would typically reply.

They wouldn’t be left to find out for themselves how much it can hurt to wait for a line over night or, alternatively, how suffocating it can feel to have to type out a reply under emotional duress.