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The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

What is going on with ChatGPT?

silvery female figurine in front of a laptop displaying the chatgpt logo
‘With everything going on in the world, I wouldn’t particularly mind if computers took over.’ Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Sick and tired of having to work for a living? ChatGPT feels the same, apparently. Over the last month or so, there’s been an uptick in people complaining that the chatbot has become lazy. Sometimes it just straight-up doesn’t do the task you’ve set it. Other times it will stop halfway through whatever it’s doing and you’ll have to plead with it to keep going. Occasionally it even tells you to just do the damn research yourself.

So what’s going on?

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