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Enthusiasm for the imminent automation of skilled labor has been tempered after a user’s chess match against an early version of GPT-5 revealed a critical flaw: an illegal move made within the first 10 turns. The incident, first reported on Reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1mkhkwt/gpt_5/), raises questions about the model’s reasoning abilities and suggests that despite advances, artificial general intelligence still faces significant hurdles before widespread job displacement becomes a reality.