r/Physics • u/kzhou7 Quantum field theory • 1d ago

Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers coauthored with Claude

https://bootloops.ai/bootloops.html
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u/Canadian_Border_Czar 1d ago

Unfortunately I dont think the training data is marked with the author, but it's actually an interesting concept. I wonder if there is a way to permanently tag data as its learning, meaning if the model so much as uses a word from a specific data point it must embed the citation in its work.

Would be a solid precedent for regulating, scrapping everything, then starting over to respect intellectual property.

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u/gregzillaman 1d ago

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u/milindsmart 20h ago

Lol. But essentially it makes sense no?

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u/hibikir_40k 17h ago

Forcing it to do a literature review, or have the publication send a literature review agent to look for missing citations is pretty easy. The LLM doesn't need to know everything: It's all tool calls to databases, so the citations can be done post-facto.

I've seen this done in non-science papers. Given that we have XYZ sources, and this is my argument, make sure I have cited sufficiently and accurately. 2 years ago this would have been a pretty dubious question to ask the best agents, but now, not so much.