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    One Year In, ChatGPT’s Legacy Is Clear

    The technology is less important than the ideas it represents.
    by Charlie Warzel Nov 30, 2023 4 minutes
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    ChatGPT is one year old today, and it’s accomplished a lot in its first trip around the sun. The chatbot has upended or outright killed high-school and college essay writing and thoroughly scrambled the brains of academics, creating an on-campus arms race that professors have already lost. It has been used to write books, article summaries, and political content, and it has flooded online marketplaces with computer-generated slop.

    As we’ve gotten to know ChatGPT, we’ve noticed how malleable it is. The li’l bot loves . Its underlying technology has been into internet search. ChatGPT is a ——but also, potentially, a labor-force destroyer and a way for machines out of our jobs. It may even be the harbinger of an unrecognizable world and a “” to come.

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