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LisaM

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18. How about taxing ChatGPT users?

Reply to Multichromatic (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 04:37 AM

23 hrs ago

People seem to use it for everything. We have clients who use it to write emails. College students use it to cheat on papers. It's ubiquitous and in a lot of cases people use it as a crutch.

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