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    Feb 07, 2023 4 minutes

    THIS ISSUE: Is this the future of hi-fi reviewing?

    There has been much discussion lately about ChatGPT, the machine-learning–based chatbot from OpenAI. Some experts say it will soon make human writers obsolete. Will that include human hi-fi reviewers?

    I decided to engage ChatGPT in an exploratory conversation; think of it as a sort of job interview. What follows has been intensively edited; many words have been removed, but none have been altered. I’m including my own comments in italics.

    CHATGPT: Hi-fi, or high-fidelity, refers to audio equipment and systems that are designed to reproduce sound as accurately and faithfully as

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