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> The incident has causeda stir in the community

I wonder if ChatGPT included a typo because virtually every small town news article has one.

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Matt here, LearnGPT's founder.

I have someone helping transcribe interesting screenshots that others have posted online and she just made a typo; it wasn't ChatGPT. I corrected it.

Also, if you post a screenshot on LearnGPT, she'll transcribe it so it's easier for others to read - usually without typos :).

If only transcribing from screenshots could be automated somehow... Maybe in 50 years.

It was a quick v1 solution, but yeah, it likely can be automated.

ScreenshotsGo from Mozilla on Android can transcribe all screenshots in minutes and then make the text available for search.

P.S. I used to do this back in 2019 but apparently it's no longer available on Play Store. I wonder what happened.

If you have a solution why don't you suggest it?

Perhaps not what OP was referring to, but MacOS now supports copying text from images natively.

FWIW, on iOS you can select text inside images to copy/paste. Works great in ChatGPT screenshots.

Android can do that with a few more steps: take a screenshot, tap Google lens (can do this on the screenshot popup UI, without leaving the current app), and then the text tab.

Works on macOS too!

I was just about to ask the same question. Is this a formatting error by ChatGPT or afterwards on the website?

In the former, it is interesting that typos are part of ChatGPTs vocabulary in some form. And is used correctly.

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