Post #2702964

2026-04-03 00:36 UTC

The action item you can take away from this rant: call things like Claude or the like what they are: plagiarism machines. That's not a dig -- that's a more accurate description than "artificial intelligence". When your coworker argues that it's merely automation, be the nerd who corrects them with "automated plagiarism". Normalize describing gen AI accurately. I strongly believe if more people understood how it works they would not use it.

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@Forbearance@mastodon.xyz 2026-04-03 01:17

@protowlf@mastodon.gamedev.place Do you have a good source (ironically) that sets out the reasoning behind why we should understand what's going on inside one of these models while code is coming out as "plagiarism"? They absolutely will spit out whole chunks of code that one can point to and say "that was copied from such-and-such without following the license". But they also don't *always* do that. Are they *always* plagiarizing, or only sometimes?

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