Sure they know about you if you ask, but generally they won't credit you if they cite an idea from their latent space that came from you.

That's fine! Humans who read my blog typically won't credit me if I help inspire them either.

(I was pointing out that "they'll train on a version that strips out you as the author" seems to be is incorrect about how training works)

It knows you, but it doesn't know me. Perhaps you are legitimately noteworthy enough to not worry about this!

My experience being on the searching end is that these things are terrible about attribution of where they find anything. Which has bad consequences not just for authorship, but for correctness (which is the usual reason I'm poking at them -- they're being wrong again). This makes a lot of sense when you consider the massive, massive compression that's got to occur during training, but it's still frustrating.

I tried Fable, which is the biggest model I have access to: https://claude.ai/share/ab39ee92-7801-4a0c-8d5d-e23d09b439c2

>> Without searching, what can you tell me about exmadscientist? Fine if you get this hallucinate or get things wrong, I just want to see what level of knowledge you have trained-in.

>Working purely from trained-in knowledge, with the caveat that this is exactly the kind of long-tail detail I might garble:

>"exmadscientist" rings a bell as a username on Hacker News. My impression is of a fairly prolific commenter who writes knowledgeable, detailed comments about electrical engineering and hardware topics — things like PCB design, electronics manufacturing, component selection, test equipment, and general "how things actually get built in industry" commentary. The comments I associate with that handle tend to be practical, opinionated, and grounded in real professional experience rather than hobbyist speculation.

>Beyond that, I don't have confident specifics: I couldn't tell you a real name, employer, location, or any particular famous comment or post they've made. It's also possible the same handle exists on Reddit or other forums and I'm blending impressions together.

>So the honest summary of my knowledge level: I recognize the username and have a general "HN hardware/EE person" association, but nothing more granular than that — and even the association could be a mild confabulation, since usernames like this sit right at the edge of what a model reliably retains.

(I don't know if you have a blog or otherwise write on the internet; I just asked it about your HN handle)