A Strange Pattern in the Middle (opens in new tab)

In a 250-word takedown sent to me over text, the brain trust of my father and Anthropic LLM Claude (which was, incidentally, trained not only on my father’s critical tendencies but also on my stolen work) described my first column as “name-droppy and insecure,” “passive-aggressive about academia,” and “somewhat pretentious despite the anti-pretension pose.” “For someone claiming to be unpretentious,” Claude/my father declared (and where did I claim to be unpretentious?), “she casually drops t...