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Yeah, you're right! The answer is definitely misleading at best. It would be better if the sentence "This method was a major component of a copyright lawsuit settlement that Anthropic paid in September 2025." was removed.

I'm sure this method _did_ come under discussion in the lawsuit & settlement, but as you pointed out the settlement itself was only about pirated works.

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Welcome to subtle misinformation as truth everywhere. "Ministry of Truth" might be a good name for this phenomenon.

Yeah, it's amazing how fast people can overlook incorrect results when the form is in the spotlight. Or the AI rhetoric is convincing or plausible.

I recall a tweet by Altman, leaking the launch of GPT-5, praising their new model's answer to a prompt about thought provoking TV shows about AI. The X thread that followed was about the form ("em-dashes are still there!") and nearly nobody cared to evaluate that neither shows recommended were about AI. They weren't, or at least, were very debatable as belonging to the genre.

I especially liked how the image inside of a link I shared of an example of GPT-5's (in)ability to rank states was decented sans warning...

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