You must have heard this at some point: Once something is on the internet, it can never really be deleted. A picture you were looking disheveled in or that inappropriate tweet someone you know had posted is now forever a part of your digital footprint. Even if you were to delete it, there is no guarantee that someone hasn’t taken a screenshot of it or hasn’t reposted it to some corner of the internet.

In the past couple of years, we have seen artificial intelligence (AI) do just about anything. Drawing, writing, creating brand-new inventions and even coding. It thus makes complete sense that now this technology has found its way to the legal world as well. In January this year, the legal services company DoNotPay made it to the news for letting its AI lawyer (by the same name) serve as the legal representative in two speeding ticket cases.

While ChatGPT may have had us all shaking in our boots at the idea of being replaced by an AI, a closer look at conversational chatbots reveals that they aren’t ready to replace us—at least, not yet. From Google’s chatbot Bard making a factual error in its first demonstration to Bing’s chatbot gaslighting users into agreeing with its claims, chatbots are riddled with issues for the time being.