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by Linas Vepštas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> · 2026-01-23T07:42:04.000Z

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51445144 Can't do one without the other.
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514823 January 2026 1AM
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5152I just now placed the following in a commit message:
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5159Author:
5160 Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
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5166Date:
5167 Fri Jan 23 06:28:50 2026 +0000
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5177Now compute the MI.
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5187This is interesting.
5188 While doing this part,
5189 Claude quoted me the
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5195documentation,
5196 word for word,
5197 that I had written many years ago,
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5203and placed into https://github.com/opencog/matrix
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5209It seems that Claude was not only trained on this,
5210 but was able
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5216to remember a rather long extract from it,
5217 that it could repeat
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5223verbatim.
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5233I suppose that Socrates might be surprised to discover that there
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5239are hundreds of thousands of students that have memorized bits
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5245and pieces of his Dialogs (well,
5246 Plato's version thereof).
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5256I should not be surprised that these systems have been trained on
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5262my writing;
5263 it is all open source.
5264 And yet,
5265 such long verbatim
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5271extracts still leave me surprised.
5272 I wonder how well it knows that
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5278what it's quoting me is something I wrote many years ago ...
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5284I feel vaguely scandalized.
5285 Why do I feel this way?
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5293So as I rolled into bed,
5294 I thought about this,
5295 and came to this conclusion:
5296 respect is built on friendships.
5297 Normally,
5298 if I say something that leaves an impression on someone,
5299 its of a personal nature:
5300 Owen McNally might say to me
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5304Linas,
5305 I remember that you once said ...
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5309 and I might reply,
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5314Ah,
5315 yes!
5316 ...
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5324I post things online,
5325 and total strangers read it,
5326 and they more or less know that I wrote it:
5327 there linkage between the expression and the author.
5328 I might come across some argument about Illuminationism that Duns Scotus argued against,
5329 750 years ago,
5330 and although it is impossible for a friendship to develop,
5331 a respect over the ages can emerge.
5332 Again,
5333 this is of a personal nature:
5334 respect for the ideas as much as wonderment at the person and the setting that came up with and articulated these ideas.
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5338The scandal that I feel about Claude quoting me verbatim is precisely the lack of friendship,
5339 acquaintance.
5340 familiarity in the LLM.
5341 I suspect that Claude has no clue where it learned such text from;
5342 that it does not know that it is me.
5343 I am asking it right now:
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5347...
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5351Oh hah.
5352 Line 57 of this and such file.
5353 Well,
5354 OK.
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5358I was about to note that I am joining the ranks of all those artists and creatives who feel that their artwork has been ripped off in traini9ng AI.
5359 Or the FSF that notices that LLM's rip off GPL'ed code without attribution.
5360 But line 57 of something it just read recently is pretty slim pickins.
5361 I have nothing to complain about yet.
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5365Its sort of irritating the Duns Scotus was able to articulate notions of existence that we have made scant progress on in the intervening ages.
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5369WTF Am I doing?
5370 I am going to bed,
5371 that is what I am doing.
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