Re:Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
by baq on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:35AM
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> Frog and toad eating cookies is lifted wholesale from the book.
…lifted is not the right word here
Re:Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
by grey-area on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:00AM
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Regenerated? That anecdote is in the books from memory and a quick search with very similar pics.
Re:Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
by baq on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:41AM
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that reference is half the point in the story...
Re:Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
by saghm on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:05AM
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Third-party amateur sequels are a pretty common thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction
Frog and toad eating cookies is lifted wholesale from the book.
I like how Claude only used the OpenAI account (completely reliable!), and confidently claims ‘the story stays faithful to what actually happened.’ We don’t know the full story, and certainly aren’t going to get it from a press release or a strange analogy involving frog and toad and machines having discussions, emotions etc that we have ZERO evidence for. The ‘discussions’ are plucked from chain of thought, which is itself generated after the fact.