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4 February 2023

9:00 AM

4 February 2023

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3284, you were invited to supply a topical short story that begins with the last line of a well-known novel and ends with the first.

Much has been written about the rise of AI bot ChatGPT (from zero users to several million its first two weeks!), and reader Alistair Kelman fed it the last and first lines of Nineteen Eighty-Four to see how it would fare with this challenge.

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