I’m baffled by the number of people who are so against citing sources. I understand that not everyone is familiar either academia and outside it there’s no such requirement but it’s still a good practice and there’s a higher bar for huge companies, especially with extraordinary claims.

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A lot of people are fucking pissed, both at the object level and at the meta-level idea that LLMs allow plagiarism on request

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Also, like, the fact that I had dated receipts was so important here. If I hadn't written things 4 years ago that were virtually identical, and/or hadn't shared them with others, I'd have had a much weaker case

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I'm not an asshole! I understand that honest mistakes happen, and I'm happy to work privately with people well before escalating. But my patience has limits

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Would Ant have credited Mononoke had I not written two posts that both went viral on HN? Given that I had privately reached out to them and given them an opportunity to fix things before making the public posts, I suspect not!

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