wow I hope the bubble pops soon.. now that you discovered books with AI that was illegally trained on them, how about reading them?

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jennyholzer6 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Claude Code users only know how to read well enough to skim the responses fed to them by their chatbots.

The people who use software like Claude Code are overwhelmingly not literate or motivated enough to read books.

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nephihaha 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not sure I understand what the connections are exactly, or whether they go much deeper than certain words and phrases.

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only-one1701 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm really not trying to be mean, but one of the things we learn in the humanities is that basically any two texts can be connected via extremely broad statements (e.g. "Perfect is the enemy of the good"). This is like the joke on twitter about how every couple of years someone in tech invents the concept of public transportation.

	▲	nephihaha 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, exactly, "extremely broad". English isn't just built up of individual words, but phrasal verbs, idioms and sayings, so it is inevitable some of these will repeat. (Even before AI, hack writing relied on clichés, repetition etc and downright plagiarism.)