Peter Bhat Harkins ✔️ on Mythryl: “I suppose LLMs are especially likely to plagiarize authors directly…”

I suppose LLMs are especially likely to plagiarize authors directly back to them because the words and style in authors’ prompts can’t help but move the LLM close to their work in vector space.

Martin Kleppmann@martin.kleppmann.com

Using Claude to help write some lecture notes on databases, and it basically quoted my own book back to me (without me asking for it). I do know it's in the training data because I got letters about the Anthropic copyright settlement… still, feels pretty weird

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