In general, in my opinion.

In the 2000s, primary schools were better able to afford to pay a qualified MFL teacher to deliver lessons. Now it is more likely to be either the class teacher, who may not even speak the language, or a TA delivering it during PPA.

I try to get chat gpt to ask me the questions. A bit like if I was practising for a GCSE speaking exam. I'm just using it for "leisure" purposes though, I agree you have to be much more wary about using it for teaching.

We got a knife sharpener delivered today. Courier needed age verification even though the package had no knife and item not sharp! John Lewis could not post us out a basic table knife that was missing from a box we bought.

I'm obviously practising really banal topics of conversation with chat gpt as I haven't personally come across that. It's a serious flaw though - AI will reflect the biases of the humans who created it. And thereby perpetuate those biases.

If you ask chat gpt to have a conversation with you in a different language on a specific topic, it is quite good. You can specify that you want it at beginners level and you want corrections in English. It's not perfect of course, but it's a way of practicing spontaneous writing