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If I told it: an imperfect portrait of ChatGPT

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20.02.2026

If I told it: an imperfect portrait of ChatGPT

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‘Why did you write it?’

As an English professor, the YouTube video essayist known as ‘josh (with parentheses)’ has, over the past few years, witnessed a faculty-wide panic about students using large language models (LLMs) to plagiarise assignments. The experience inspired him to create this sprawling video essay on the meaning of LLMs – what they can do and, more to the point, what they can’t. To him, this........

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