korrents

A korrentour reading

A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces.

Drawn from what Simon Willison said

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What is a korrent?

A korrent — “current”, with a K — is our reading of what someone said: one sentence, drawn from their own words below. People put the same thought in different words; a korrent tries to name the thought they share, so that what several people mean can be set side by side, and followed as it changes.

It is an approximation, and it is ours. The quotes are theirs, word for word, and where the two differ, the quote is the fact. Read more →

What Simon Willison actually said

Word for word, from things they published elsewhere, each linked to where it was said. They did not write this page.

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    Simon Willison 2 Sept 2026

    I don’t trust Claude to summarize its own system prompts when there’s a risk that material from its system prompt might impact its opinions.

    Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyricssimonwillison.net

First recorded here 2 Sept 2026 · How quotes work

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