I asked ChatGPT a basic physics question: > Imagine you have two semi-infinite conducting metal plates at right-angles, in an L shape. The plates are along the

I asked ChatGPT a basic physics question: > Imagine you have two semi-infinite conducting metal plates at right-angles, in an L shape. The plates are along the x and y axes. You place a charge +q at a point (d, d) in the top right-hand corner of the plane. Using the method of images, work out the force on the charge. It gave me a very detailed, and utterly incorrect answer. I pointed out its errors and it corrected them politely. I eventually asked it to draw me an ascii-art diagram of what it thought was going on, and it drew a coordinate system with mis-labelled axes that looked both utterly plausible and yet was filled with genuinely creative bollocks. The whole thing was a bit like reading a patronising answer in a bad sci-fi film (that needed severe editing and had bits of reality in it). I'm sure, however, if you took the output and sent it to the International Journal of Please Pay Us Open Access "Publishing" it'd get accepted and given a DOI...