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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web | The New Yorker
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OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
Save this story Save this story In 2013, workers at a German construction company noticed something odd about their Xerox photocopier: when they made a copy of the floor plan of a house, the copy differed from the original in a subtle but significant way. In the original floor plan, each of the house’s three rooms was accompanied by a rectangle specifying its area: the rooms were 14.13, 21.11, and 17.42 square metres, respectively. However, in the photocopy, all three rooms were labelled as being 14.13 square metres in size. The company contacted the computer scientist David Kriesel to investi
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