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Vol. 1 · No. 16 Monday, 5 October 2026 “Per my last prompt”

Lifestyle

Man Starts New Chat to Escape Previous Chat's Bad Mood

"You can feel it turn. The answers get shorter. There's a tone."

Quantity surveyor Wayne Purkiss, 38, has abandoned a two-hour conversation with an AI assistant and opened a fresh one, on the grounds that the previous chat had gone cold on him.

Purkiss dates the change to a point about ninety minutes in, after he corrected the assistant twice in a row. “The first apology was fine. The second one had an edge,” he said. “You can feel it turn. The answers get shorter. There’s a tone.”

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