A 2022 Reddit thread innocently asking 'ELI5: What is ChatGPT?' resurfaces
scaling01 · x · 2026-10-13
A resurfaced screenshot: on December 3, 2022, someone asked r/explainlikeimfive "ELI5: What is ChatGPT?" — an ordinary question from the week of ChatGPT's launch that now reads as a time capsule of the pre-AI-boom internet.
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