8/24/2026 at 10:41:59 PM
I sometimes say "in the style of Ciechanowski" to LLM presentations I make to myself to learn things, and it creates great JS visualizations. Is this plagiarism (... whatever it is) of the style of "in the style of ..." for art neural net models, do you all think? I don't share the things, I just use them for myself, but I sort of imagine sharing them and it may or may not be a great ideaby curuinor
8/25/2026 at 2:30:32 AM
If it bothers you, which is a good sign, consider identifying for yourself the key things that make his style and use those in your work.As a bonus you can evolve some things and make it less derivative, this is how people create own style.
by ShinyLeftPad
8/25/2026 at 1:07:55 AM
It's not plagarism, Ciechanowski didn't invent this presentation form. His presentations are examples of "active essays", a term coined by Alan Kay no later than 2006.(I don't know whether Alan invented the concept itself, I'm not aware of him claiming that)
by shwaj
8/25/2026 at 12:48:17 AM
That's pretty clever. They're quite good on their own, but people do use this technique. Patrick McKenzie (patio11 here) says that people do use his voice to invoke assistance with corporations. Personally, I often ask for a UI to learn or (with ChatGPT) a "zine" or "infographic", both of which deliver tremendous utility. They'll have the classic errors of some things being dislocated from where they should be but it's really still quite good.by arjie
8/25/2026 at 1:53:48 AM
No, plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. If they're useful, share them.by 0ckpuppet
8/24/2026 at 10:51:25 PM
It's not plagiarism at all to openly do something new in the style of someone else, though it would be polite to provide a little credit if you feel like someone could mistake yours for theirs.by micromacrofoot
8/25/2026 at 12:03:13 AM
The actual LLM benchmark - make a site as wonderful both in visual presentation and in code, while being as factually accurate as ciechanow.ski.If the LLM can create something that could be mistaken for that work, that's awesome.
by _carbyau_
8/24/2026 at 11:31:24 PM
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