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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It’s no different from GPT knowing the plot of Aliens or who played the main role in Matilda.

It's seen enough code to recognise the pattern, it knows an author name goes in there, and Phil Nash is likely a prolific enough author that it just plopped his name in there. It's not intelligence, just patterns.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

"Yeah this sounds like a Phil Nash sort of problem, I'll just stick him in here."