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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

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

"Imagine that you’re about to lose your access to the Internet forever.
In preparation, you plan to create a compressed copy of all the text on
the Web, so that you can store it on a private server. Unfortunately,
your private server has only one per cent of the space needed; you can’t
use a lossless compression algorithm if you want everything to fit.

"If a compression algorithm is designed to reconstruct text after
ninety-nine per cent of the original has been discarded, we should
expect that significant portions of what it generates will be entirely
fabricated.

This analogy makes even more sense when we remember that a common
technique used by lossy compression algorithms is interpolation—that is,
estimating what’s missing by looking at what’s on either side of the
gap. When an image program is displaying a photo and has to reconstruct
a pixel that was lost during the compression process, it looks at the
nearby pixels and calculates the average. This is what ChatGPT does when
it’s prompted to describe, say, losing a sock in the dryer using the
style of the Declaration of Independence: it is taking two points in
“lexical space” and generating the text that would occupy the location
between them. (“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary
for one to separate his garments from their mates, in order to maintain
the cleanliness and order thereof. . . .”) ChatGPT is so good at this
form of interpolation that people find it entertaining: they’ve
discovered a “blur” tool for paragraphs instead of photos, and are
having a blast playing with it."

RC2006 says

I think this AI stuff is going to be an out for people that get exposed, they will say it was AI and fake.

That was my first thought when the CIA was making it, and the MSM was reporting that we should all be careful of videos in the not so distant future, it would be riddled with A.I.
This was before most anyone had even seen their first A.I. generated video. They just seemed so set on setting it up to be the scapegoat when the fake news moniker fails.

A.I. generated video is just an advanced form of the "trick photography" that has been around for over a century. Like the flying monkeys in "Wizard of Oz" and Audrey Hepburn singing with someone else's voice.

HeadSet says

just an advanced form of the "trick photography" that has been around for over a century.

I remember when commercials first started using special effects, only they didn't call it special effects. Until that movie FX came out.
My father used to marvel at the Gleem commercial where the White, Green and Red tooth paste on three separate toothbrushes would merge into one. He said "that's one hell of a trick photography!"

Tenpoundbass says

My father used to marvel at the Gleem commercial where the White, Green and Red tooth paste on three separate toothbrushes would merge into one.

He must have really liked the giant in the washer and the tidy bowl man. How about that camera movement where they made Reagan and Dukakis look the same height during the debate?