Blake Lefray (@belowthefray): "A reminder that these LLMs are regurgitation machines. All they do is plagiarize. Sometimes they just have enough sources that it’s well hidden. Sometimes not so much…"

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A reminder that these LLMs are regurgitation machines. All they do is plagiarize. Sometimes they just have enough sources that it’s well hidden. Sometimes not so much…

Lincoln Michel

As I was drafting (another) post about LLM use in literature, this news story popped into my feed. Paywalled but the tl;dr is a freelance book reviewer used LLMs to write a NYT review and the LLMs plagiarized from a Guardian review. Oop.

The NYT review now has this note

“Editors’ Note: March 30, 2026:

A reader recently alerted The Times t…

thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/new-york…

Mar 31

2:22 AM

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