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@datarama<\/a> The more I think about it the more I love this analogy. \"Cloning\" was indeed a much earlier instance of copying the AI playbook of coining a misleading word to get press and funding for your research.<\/p>

(Yes, copying *from* AI - the AI scam does back over half a century!)<\/p>

Using a word, \"cloning\", which should mean doing something like a Star Trek transporter accident to a living being, making two full copies of the same being. Not \"something like a twin, but with less in common\".<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-19:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117427961952555354","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117427961952555354","objectType":"note","content":"

@datarama<\/a> The more I think about it the more I love this analogy. \"Cloning\" was indeed a much earlier instance of copying the AI playbook of coining a misleading word to get press and funding for your research.<\/p>

(Yes, copying *from* AI - the AI scam does back over half a century!)<\/p>

Using a word, \"cloning\", which should mean doing something like a Star Trek transporter accident to a living being, making two full copies of the same being. Not \"something like a twin, but with less in common\".<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117427961952555354","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117427904820103355","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117427904820103355"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/datarama"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-12:objectType=thread:nonce=983e9f6c605d8dab","notice_info":{"local_id":"13268569","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-10-12T12:35:06+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117427961952555354"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/datarama","displayName":"datarama","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/200924-original-tmp20240212124140.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":384,"height":384},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/200924-96-20240212124143.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/200924-48-20240212124143.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/200924-24-20240212124143.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"200924"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/200924-96-20240212124143.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@datarama","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"datarama","displayName":"datarama"}},"content":"

@dalias<\/a> Ishiguro's story (which is the one that's stuck with me most from the clone panic) got it pretty right, I think. Children who were basically identical twins born some 30-40 years after their wealthy \"twin\". His clones were just people; they weren't grown in vats and released full-formed into the world - they had childhoods and everything.<\/p>

(and were intended from birth - often by a surrogate mother who was also a clone - to be harvested for organs to keep the \"twin\" living indefinitely, since this was a dystopian sf story.)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-19:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/datarama\/statuses\/117427932269821743","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/datarama\/statuses\/117427932269821743","objectType":"note","content":"

@dalias<\/a> Ishiguro's story (which is the one that's stuck with me most from the clone panic) got it pretty right, I think. Children who were basically identical twins born some 30-40 years after their wealthy \"twin\". His clones were just people; they weren't grown in vats and released full-formed into the world - they had childhoods and everything.<\/p>

(and were intended from birth - often by a surrogate mother who was also a clone - to be harvested for organs to keep the \"twin\" living indefinitely, since this was a dystopian sf story.)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@datarama\/117427932269821743","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117427904820103355","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117427904820103355"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-12:objectType=thread:nonce=983e9f6c605d8dab","notice_info":{"local_id":"13268546","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-10-12T12:27:32+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@datarama\/117427932269821743"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias","displayName":"Rich Felker","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-original-tmp20221202140938.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-96-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-48-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-24-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"40873"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-96-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"C librarian, purveyor of the language's eldritch horrors. Poppin' shells \ud83e\uddaa","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"dalias","displayName":"Rich Felker","note":"C librarian, purveyor of the language's eldritch horrors. Poppin' shells \ud83e\uddaa"}},"content":"

@datarama<\/a> And like AI, the scifi bullshit around cloning was all taking advantage of the audience not understanding any of it and muddling a very boring thing (artificially producing something close to a twin, artificially producing something superficially resembling human language) with something that bamboozles them (\"copying a person\", \"machine is thinking\").<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-19:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117427904820103355","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117427904820103355","objectType":"note","content":"

@datarama<\/a> And like AI, the scifi bullshit around cloning was all taking advantage of the audience not understanding any of it and muddling a very boring thing (artificially producing something close to a twin, artificially producing something superficially resembling human language) with something that bamboozles them (\"copying a person\", \"machine is thinking\").<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117427904820103355","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/datarama"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-12:objectType=thread:nonce=983e9f6c605d8dab","notice_info":{"local_id":"13268528","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-10-12T12:20:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117427904820103355"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6748408","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}