Ratzenberger, who starred as Cliff Clavin, had noticed an audience member fixated on Shelley Long and Ted Danson during a taping of the show. "Just wherever [Long and Danson] were, he was staring ...

I’m not sure who first compared ChatGPT to Cliff Clavin, the garrulous mailman/barfly from TV’s Cheers. It’s so an apt comparison that many people probably came up with it independently.

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