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by dovin 47 days ago
I fed it my most-read blog post and asked it to identify me and it confidently asserted it was written by Kelsey Piper. Maybe some writers just take outsized importance in Opus' "mind".
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Yeah, style attribution is something big generalist models are usually pretty bad at, even on the material they have likely been trained on. Sure they are classifiers but this ability is limited, there's too much going on in them and they aren't magic. This needs a proper experiment, not anecdotal evidence.
I gave Claude a couple of paragraphs of Ozy Brennan's newsletter from today, and it guessed Scott Alexander.
Or it needs a minimum sample size in the training set. I fed it some small private conversations and it refused, then some heavier ones and it guessed John Carmack. Flattering but wrong.