A new study suggests that ChatGPT could be used to prevent future epidemics. For the study, researchers developed a model that simulates the spread of an illness similar to Covid-19. According to the Daily Beast newspaper, the fake model developed by a team of researchers at Virginia Tech, was a Covid-like deadly airborne pathogen called the “Catasat virus”, causing symptoms that range from a light cough at best, to a fever and moderate cough at worst.