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Chatgpt is a blurry jpeg of the web

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A page on newyorker.com, which corpus.blog does not hold as a blog, is cited by 92 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 8 October 2026).

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92blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time92108
Last 90 days77
Last 30 days11
Last 7 days11
Figures for this page
First cited11 Feb 2023
Latest citation8 Oct 2026
Anchor phrases5
Called by its title22 of 92 blogs
New citing blogs a weeksince Feb 2023
New citing blogs a week, since Feb 2023: 192 weeks, peak 12 a week, latest week 1

1 this week (still settling) · peak 12

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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 2 blogs have no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 92 blogs across 10 subjects: technology 42, society and politics 6, books and writing 5, life 5, arts and culture 4, design and making 2, ideas and humanities 2, travel and outdoors 2, food and drink 1, science 1, unclassified 22.

How it is described

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • chatgpt is a blurry jpeg of the web22 blogs
  • blurry jpeg of the web9 blogs
  • blurry jpeg4 blogs
  • ted chiang4 blogs
  • a blurry jpeg of the web3 blogs

Cited by 92 blogs in 108 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
seanvoisen.com1 post
A bestiary of AI metaphors

linked as “a blurry JPEG of the web”

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21 Dec 2025
jayhoffmann.com1 post
Locking up the information

linked as “actually a concise wrap up of a longer piece he had written.”

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14 Oct 2025
newappsblog.com4 posts
Reading List: Leif Weatherby, Language Machines

linked as “blurry JPEG of the web”

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3 Oct 2025
3 other posts
Why did the chatbot cross the road?

linked as “blurry jpeg of the Internet”

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7 Mar 2024
Implicit Normativity in Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback in Large Language Models

linked as “blurry .JPG of the web”

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2 Nov 2023
Bing also hallucinates, even with footnotes

linked as “blurry JPEG”

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5 May 2023
The Content Technologist | Content strategy newsletter & website, publishing since 2019.1 post
Perception, intention, and poetic license: What is the attention mechanism that powers LLMs?

linked as “critiqued ChatGPT as "a blurry jpeg of the web."”

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7 Sept 2025
colin-fraser.net2 posts
Who are we talking to when we talk to these bots? – Colin Fraser

linked as “blurry JPEG of the web”

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26 May 2025
1 other post
Who are we talking to when we talk to these bots?

linked as “blurry JPEG of the web”

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27 Feb 2023
gettingsmart.com1 post
Why Evidence Is Everything in An AI World

linked as “Ted Chiang asserts that”

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21 May 2025
frctlflm.blog1 post
Nonsense Machines

linked as “blurry jpeg”

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3 May 2025
lynxthoughts.com1 post
Philosophy Tuesday

linked as “Ted Chiang”

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30 Apr 2025
devingaffney.com1 post
How Much Data is Enough for Finetuning an LLM?

linked as “New Yorker”

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1 Sept 2024
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice | Scholar/ Practitioner's thoughts on education1 post
Anatomy of an AI Essay (Elizabeth Steere)

linked as “article”

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18 Jul 2024
ryancordell.org1 post
The Scissors, the Paste-Pot, and the Large Language Model

linked as “Ted Chiang turns”

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23 May 2024
koolinus.wordpress.com1 post
suggested reads for March 17, 2024

linked as “ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web”

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17 Mar 2024
Jim Nielsen1 post
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG

linked as “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”

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4 Mar 2024
ainoya.dev1 post
JIRA and GitHub Daily Workflow Script

linked as “The New Yorker”

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18 Jan 2024
n00q.net2 posts
links

linked as “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the web”

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16 Jan 2024
1 other post
AI reading list

linked as “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the web”

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22 Nov 2023
mkln.org - Marketing, Kaffee, LOL & Netzkultur. Ernst gemeint? Mitnichten.1 post
Ted Chiangs ChatGPT-Artikel

linked as “blurry jpeg of the web”

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5 Jan 2024
blog.madelinepritchard.com2 posts
2023 in media (1/3) — reading

linked as “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”

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5 Jan 2024
1 other post
February 2023 in media

linked as “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”

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28 Feb 2023
bricolage.io1 post
Flying Drones in Latent Space

linked as “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”

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19 Dec 2023
notes.cagrimmett.com1 post
AI Reading List

linked as “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”

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30 Nov 2023
dhicks.github.io1 post
Fact checking ChatGPT: An activity for Critical Thinking

linked as “essay”

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10 Nov 2023
Memex 1.1 | John Naughton's online diary1 post
Wednesday 18 October, 2023

linked as “likened”

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17 Oct 2023
dmc1 post
02.06 – 02.12

linked as “ChatGPT is a blurry jpeg of the web”

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23 Aug 2023
jondron.ca2 posts
Cognitive prostheses and the future of the human race

linked as “like blurry JPEGs rather than RAW images”

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19 Aug 2023
1 other post
The artificial curriculum

linked as “blurry JPEG of the web”

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15 Jul 2023
blog.reimenayee.com1 post
The Automated God and Angel

linked as “the blurry JPG of the web”

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26 Jul 2023
crookedtimber.org1 post
Shoggoths amongst us

linked as “has compared LLMs”

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3 Jul 2023

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