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ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web | The New Yorkerarchive
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www.newyorker.com Jan 23, 2026

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[...] Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that a JPEG retains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it [...]