

He has been largely forgotten. Recently we were talking about data collection with my slightly younger gf (21) when I mentioned him. Turns out she never even heard his name. It’s not that she’s stupid or does not care about privacy, he just hasn’t been mentioned in mainstream media for over a decade, nobody makes reels about him on Instagram/tiktok. Tbh I haven seen him mentioned all that often on lemmy too.
With the rise of fascist parties worldwide, and especially here in the EU, and talks of AI, privacy seems to have taken a back seat in mainstream discourse.

Anytime you get into specifics instead of surface level knowledge it starts getting wildly inaccurate while still being confident af.
Off the top of my head I asked it about EDODF (error diffusion with output dependent feedback), a dithering algorithm dating back to 1999, and a very important milestone in halftoning for print.
At first it told me it’s not sure what I’m talking about, so I elaborated and extended the acronym. At that point it confidently hallucinated absolute garbage based on its interpretation of the name.
If you want to check chatgpt’s answers about edodf (or many other concepts) against a proven and cited source written by human I highly recommend Modern digital halftoning.
Not trying to be rude, but maybe the questions you are benchmarking it against in your stated fields of experitse are rather basic?