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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Matthew Cantor

Incredibly smart or incredibly stupid? What we learned from using ChatGPT for a year

image of phone that says 'chatgpt' and 'openAI'
ChatGPT was released in late November last year. Photograph: Costfoto/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Next month ChatGPT will celebrate its first birthday – marking a year in which the chatbot, for many, turned AI from a futuristic concept to a daily reality.

Its universal accessibility has led to a host of concerns, from job losses to disinformation to plagiarism. Over the same period, tens of millions of users have been investigating what the platform can do to make their lives just a little bit easier.

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