the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"

If the difference is granting prestige or credit, I see your point. But I guess I’m more focused on the documentary function of citation (ie how can I see exactly the text/evidence you’re discussing).

For many purposes, I like this guidance. A discussion of LLMs should cite model details; and the suggestion in footnote 1 to include a URL to the "chat" (output) itself seems right (and ChatGPT now does this).

By contrast, "Paris is the Capital of France" (ChatGPT), has little value.

broke: teach the kids to code because it's employable

woke: teach the kids humanities because it's important to know about art, philosophy and other languages

bespoke: teach the kids to code because it's important to know about art, society, philosophy and other languages