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Chiang is still writing some of the best critical work on "AI." His February article in the *New Yorker*, "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web," was an instant classic:

> [AI] hallucinations are compression artifacts, but—like the incorrect labels generated by the Xerox photocopier—they are plausible enough that identifying them requires comparing them against the originals, which in this case means either the Web or our own knowledge of the world.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

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