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|October 11, 2025
AI can fix your grammar, not your life. It's a tool, not your bestie or your guru. Here's our guide to prompting it right
Already, it’s become hard to remember a time without ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
(Did we really draft our own emails?) AI has quietly become our bestie, a no-judgement entity that is open to our anxieties, weird questions and unpleasant tasks. We've used it to plan a travel itinerary, to summarise a 34-message mail trail, to generate a one-word review of the Jean Paul Gaultier show at Paris Fashion Week (Catastrophique!) It will examine that suspicious mole at 4am. It will even stand in for a date. And honestly, who are we to judge — have you seen dating apps lately?
This story is from the October 11, 2025 edition of Brunch.
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