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Joe Bromley

I used ChatGPT to research my dissertation — here’s why it’s fine

A banker, a health data scientist and a London gallery assistant walk into a pub. They are just my friends (sorry, no joke here) and we were only talking about one thing: ChatGPT.

They’d been using the eerily-conversational AI chatbot to (varyingly): produce a £500,000 government grant application, understand the global economic market, and write exhibition leaflets in record time. I’d just used it to help research my fashion journalism degree dissertation — and this, apparently, was the most contentious confession of them all.

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