Just yesterday, I saw a boost of someone suggesting "grand theft autocomplete" as an apt phrase for describing what large language models (such as ChatGPT and Claude) do.

Matt Campbell

Just yesterday, I saw a boost of someone suggesting "grand theft autocomplete" as an apt phrase for describing what large language models (such as ChatGPT and Claude) do. But now I can't remember who said it. The phrase doesn't yet seem to be common enough to yield a useful result when doing a DuckDuckGo search for it.

Simon Willison

@matt I'm pretty sure it originated from @johl here: https://mastodon.xyz/@johl/112059833912513751

Simon Willison

@matt here's @johl taking credit for coining it as opposed to saying they saw it somewhere else

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