From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
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“ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the Web.”
When I saw this headline, I figured it was some offhand remark — but no, this entire remarkable essay explores chatbots through the lens of lossy image compression algorithms, and it makes an awful lot of sense. (I’m worrying about bitrot already.)
Oh, and this author also penned the short story that became the award-winning movie Arrival.
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
[The New Yorker]
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