The Hoaxes of the New York Times Conversation Model

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"I don't actually have a way to verify that these aren't all hoaxes," he says. "The answers are sometimes so good and so sort of hilarious ... they almost feel like it's like a sci-fi novel." The model is much, and it's less useful now, but it's also far less crazy. But even that, like, it's not really replicable. We just suddenly, we had access to this model. Some sort of messed up. And we saw how completely insane it was underneath the Butler mask.

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