Kording Lab: AI credits inventors but almost never credits the original source of an idea
KordingLab · x · 2026-09-12
Kording Lab highlights a curious attribution quirk in AI: models will credit the inventors of something, but almost never credit whoever originated an idea or a communications idea—short of having built it.
The resulting text is convincing and logical, and scientists like it that way. The observation points to a systematic blind spot in how AI handles intellectual provenance: original thinkers behind ideas remain invisible in its citations.
More from Models
- Dwarkesh podcast: Schulman, O'Neill & Millidge on RSI, long-horizon RL and AGI timelines — saranormous · 2026-09-12
- LMArena analyzed 30,086 answer pairs: different LLMs share just 43.1% of ideas — arena · 2026-09-12
- Four Reported Tricks Behind "Dumbed-Down" Models: Routing, Juice Cuts, Truncated Reasoning, MTP — vista8 · 2026-09-12
- GPT Astra users fret over 'honeymoon window': compute shortage rumors spark performance anxiety — TooManyB1tches · 2026-09-12
- tldraw founder lists 10 bugs in ChatGPT's new sketch feature — manosaie · 2026-09-12
- GPT-6 Astra tops DDD benchmark for multi-step retrosynthesis, nearing specialist models — CatAstro_Piyush · 2026-09-12