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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

780 points · 805 comments · raahelb

  1. mullingitover · · focus · HN ↗
    This is great, but I can't help but wonder if we're going to have another post next week with a lab complaining that they were about to publish this same finding, and they had Claude proofread their paper, and whoops how'd that get into Anthropic's training data?
    1. jjtheblunt · · focus · HN ↗
      the article says the reverse transcriptase had been noticed before, but apparently only Claude commented on the subsequence repeating, to your point.
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