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I don't see anything about his height at the link.

Sorry, I knew it is a risk that everyone gets different results on Google. For me the "featured snippet" is taken from this page, which was obviously generated by an LLM, and which plainly states that Phelps is 14 feet tall.

To me, it is a signifier that the web is truly dead, and LLMs killed it. The search engines are featuring the LLM outputs now.

https://www.scienceabc.com/sports/michael-phelps-height-arms...

Too low quality, I think it's just a crappy content farm and not an LLM (e.g. using "he did' instead of "he was" in the intro and the lactate threshold diagram is wrong)

Not just LLMs. Search engines like Google based on spying for money.

It looks like a typo? The referenced article has it too:

“Phelps has huge palms that support his paddling ability and is 14 feet tall, which essentially act as flippers (the kind of fingerless arms that seals have).”

Like 30% down the page of:

https://www.scienceabc.com/sports/michael-phelps-height-arms...).

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