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Researchers Propose Latin Phrase To Credit AI Contributions

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Anders Sandberg@anderssandberg#1054inAI

@emollick Claude argued that faciendum curavit ("saw to its being made") would be slightly more accurate in a supervisory-magistrate register, implying real oversight (especially if we add "idemque probavit", "and also approved/certified it").

Ethan Mollick@emollick

My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase "Fieri Iussit," which means "commanded to be made," a common phrase on Roman Empire buildings.

You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."

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@emollick Claude proposed "ChatGPT fecit, Anders Sandberg faciendum curavit idemque probavit" (ChatGPT made it; Anders Sandberg saw to its making and approved it.) The mini-version would be "ChatGPT fecit, Anders Sandberg probavit".

Anders Sandberg@anderssandberg

@emollick This has supervisory connotations, while fieri is just ordering. "Anders faciendum coeravit idemque probavit" would mean I supervised ChatGPT to do it and checked it myself, while just posting an output would be "Anders fieri iussit, ChatGPT faciendum coeravit idemque probavit".

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Anders Sandberg@anderssandberg

@emollick This has supervisory connotations, while fieri is just ordering. "Anders faciendum coeravit idemque probavit" would mean I supervised ChatGPT to do it and checked it myself, while just posting an output would be "Anders fieri iussit, ChatGPT faciendum coeravit idemque probavit".

Anders Sandberg@anderssandberg

@emollick (Then we got into the question of whether a more archaic republic era style "faciundum coiravit idemque probavit" would be nicer than the imperial "faciendum coeravit idemque probavit"...)

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