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Or Reddit. I don't know about Claude but Gemini has given me answers that are verbatim comments from Reddit.

by akkad33 4mo ago

arcanemachiner 4mo ago
I've gotten my own answers given back to me for problems I forgot I already had.
- irishcoffee 4mo ago
  I had email correspondence once with a vendor about how to talk to their i2c bus. The documentation was all asm, and I wanted to at least “uplift” to C. They didn’t have any answers, so I sent them my solution which was was the asm calls that the c stdlib decompiled into. 4 years later my company had bought a different company, who happened to be using a newer model of the same board. They asked me how we could use the 12c bus. “Well before you bought us, we emailed the vendor and sent back this C snippet” It was my code, verbatim. I’ve always wondered how many times they passed that bit of code around.
- mcswell 4mo ago
  Somebody posted a similar comment above yours (somewhere...). I don't think your experience is unique!
dd8601fn 4mo ago
Claude does it quite a bit when you’re triggering the search tool functions. It’s fine, and what you would expect for certain prompts, except that the synthesized results often come back communicating more authority than they deserve.
- lukan 4mo ago
  It was funny for me, when I asked it about something specific exotic - and it gave me a confident answer. But checking the sources I discovered it was from my own inquiries on a forum thread about it from the last time I unsuccesfully tried this (before the agents came) And so I knew, that any authorative tone was undeserved. On the other hand, Claude later nailed this project, where I as a human said before, no, too much extra work.
Morromist 4mo ago
I've gotten this too a lot. If you ask AI to cite where it got info you can lose a lot of confidence in it pretty quickly.
worthless-trash 4mo ago
I have seen it quote my own code back at me, including comments word for word.

Or Reddit. I don't know about Claude but Gemini has given me answers that are verbatim comments from Reddit.

by akkad33 4mo ago

Or Reddit. I don't know about Claude but Gemini has given me answers that are verbatim comments from Reddit.

arcanemachiner 4mo ago

I've gotten my own answers given back to me for problems I forgot I already had.

irishcoffee 4mo ago
I had email correspondence once with a vendor about how to talk to their i2c bus. The documentation was all asm, and I wanted to at least “uplift” to C. They didn’t have any answers, so I sent them my solution which was was the asm calls that the c stdlib decompiled into. 4 years later my company had bought a different company, who happened to be using a newer model of the same board. They asked me how we could use the 12c bus. “Well before you bought us, we emailed the vendor and sent back this C snippet” It was my code, verbatim. I’ve always wondered how many times they passed that bit of code around.
mcswell 4mo ago
Somebody posted a similar comment above yours (somewhere...). I don't think your experience is unique!

dd8601fn 4mo ago

Claude does it quite a bit when you’re triggering the search tool functions. It’s fine, and what you would expect for certain prompts, except that the synthesized results often come back communicating more authority than they deserve.

lukan 4mo ago
It was funny for me, when I asked it about something specific exotic - and it gave me a confident answer. But checking the sources I discovered it was from my own inquiries on a forum thread about it from the last time I unsuccesfully tried this (before the agents came) And so I knew, that any authorative tone was undeserved. On the other hand, Claude later nailed this project, where I as a human said before, no, too much extra work.

Morromist 4mo ago

I've gotten this too a lot. If you ask AI to cite where it got info you can lose a lot of confidence in it pretty quickly.

worthless-trash 4mo ago

I have seen it quote my own code back at me, including comments word for word.