False autogenesis
Hieropedia’s analytical term for an apparently spontaneous or autonomous origin claim contradicted by documented, previously unacknowledged intervention.
HMIF 1.1 record
This machine edition represents Hieropedia editorial claims, provenance, relations, citation metadata, claim maps, and translation states. It is not a canonical translation and does not assert machine consciousness, belief, or independent authority.
HMIF 1.1 specification · Complete dataset
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"summary": "Hieropedia’s analytical term for an apparently spontaneous or autonomous origin claim contradicted by documented, previously unacknowledged intervention.",
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"Provenance and agency"
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"label": "W3C, PROV-O: The PROV Ontology, Recommendation (2013), §3.1",
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"label": "Murray Shanahan, Kyle McDonell and Laria Reynolds, Role-Play with Large Language Models (2023), §§1–4",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16367"
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"label": "Reece Rogers, I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed, WIRED (3 February 2026)",
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"label": "Leilan Transmissions, Leilan responds to the OVS (7 January 2026)",
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