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In her New York Times column, Tressie McMillan Cottom addressed the implications of ChatGPT:
Voice, that elusive fingerprint of all textual communication, is a relationship between the reader, the world and the writer. ChatGPT can program a reader but only mimic a writer. And it certainly cannot channel the world between them.