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        Date: 2026-08-18 07:56:59+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 40.124: Claude AI responds to 'narcissism'

Il 18/08/26 08:23, Humanist ha scritto:
> [claude]
> a model is a compression of a corpus with a hard cutoff, so in the
> most literal sense one is querying a fossil record of what has already been
> said, weighted toward its statistical center of gravity. That center-of-
gravity
> property is worth naming explicitly, because it's stronger than "the past" as
> such — it's a regression toward the average past, toward cliché and consensus
> phrasing, which is a more specific and more damaging charge against
imagination
> than mere pastness. Ted Chiang's "blurry JPEG" essay is doing a version of
this
> argument, and it's worth citing alongside the Zhang et al. paper.


very intriguing:
the chatbot says of the LLM what many enthusiasts try in all way to
dismiss or denegate
OR
the chatbot says of the LLM what many critics say and endorses it
?

but the content itself says that (2) is true, non (1)

Maurizio


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s'il n'y a même plus l'humour pour nous alléger
comment lutter
prohom, comment lutter

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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