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the Ruck Rugby podcast from The Times.

From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Luke Jones.

Sometimes when I'm writing, I find that it's useful to have a sort of sounding board

because no humans necessarily willing to stand by and wait for that.

I sometimes resort to going on to one of these kind of chatbots, these AI assistants,

and just running something past them that I've written and seen what they think.

That's what I was doing that day.

Your foreword actually strikes a nice balance by acknowledging that great stories need no

justification to be told and retold, while also offering readers.

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