Historian lets Codex classify 16k newspaper articles — and lives to regret it
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-19
Economics professor Joachim Voth asked Codex to classify 16,000 historical newspaper articles on a Saturday morning, having previously tested it with 5.4 nano vs mini. Half an hour later, he checked his email — with a rueful 'Beware of the Ides of Codex' as the punchline. A fun AI-gone-wrong moment.
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