Patrick McKenzie Names Himself in Prompts to Avoid Plagiarism Flags
Patrick McKenzie says he must name himself in system prompts to avoid repeated accusations of plagiarism from LLM outputs.
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Patrick McKenzie stated in a reply that he now includes his own identity in system prompts. Without this step he receives frequent pushback accusing the model output of plagiarizing him. He first described the practice during a recent podcast with Max Spero. The pattern occurs across multiple interactions and forces him to add the identifier each time to maintain productivity.
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