Claude Code chat about LLM ethics

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Source: /Users/danolner/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl

Created Claude Code chat about LLM ethics

Human (1)

[Opened file: /Users/danolner/Code/Regecon_modular_writeup/chunks.yml]
In the folder @LLMoutput, start a new markdown .md file with the following bit of initial research: find and synthesise sources including university research ethics advice on using LLM for research, reflecting specifically on how different places / universities have thought about whether uncited LLM use is identical to plagiarism. Provided embedded links to sources you find.

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I'll research university policies and ethics guidance on LLM use in research, specifically around whether uncited LLM use constitutes plagiarism.

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ls /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/

Tool result: Claude-draft of feedback guide.md Fridman Irving Finkel transcript summary by chatGPT.md Manski - uncertainty in policymaking.md Modular open publishing workflow.md Untitled.md claude_catallaxy.md

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[Web search: "university research ethics policy LLM use plagiarism uncited 2025 2026"]

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[Web search: "is uncited LLM use plagiarism academic integrity university guidance 2025"]

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[Web search: "university ethics committee AI generative AI research writing policy citation 2025 2026"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "university research ethics policy LLM use plagiarism uncited 2025 2026" Links: [{"title":"Policies on Large Language Model Usage at ICLR 2026 – ICLR Blog","url":"https:...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "is uncited LLM use plagiarism academic integrity university guidance 2025" Links: [{"title":"Plagiarism | University of Oxford","url":"https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/aca...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "university ethics committee AI generative AI research writing policy citation 2025 2026" Links: [{"title":"Generative AI Policies at the World’s Top Universities: Octob...

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[Web search: "Russell Group universities UK AI LLM policy principles research academic integrity"]

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[Web search: ""uncited AI use" "not plagiarism" OR "different from plagiarism" OR "distinct from" academic debate 2025"]

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[Fetch: https://www.thesify.ai/blog/gen-ai-policies-update-2025]

Tool result: I appreciate your request, but I need to be transparent: the web page content provided appears to be primarily HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code rather than readable article text about university AI poli...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "Russell Group universities UK AI LLM policy principles research academic integrity" Links: [{"title":"Principles on the use of generative AI tools in education | Russel...

Tool result: Web search results for query: ""uncited AI use" "not plagiarism" OR "different from plagiarism" OR "distinct from" academic debate 2025" Links: [{"title":"Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI | The Universi...

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[Fetch: https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archive/plagiarism-copyright-and-ai]

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[Fetch: https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/undeclared-ai-assisted-academic-writing-as-a-form-of-research-misconduct/]

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[Fetch: https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archive/plagiarism-copyright-and-ai]

Tool result: # AI, Plagiarism, and Copyright: Key Distinctions ## Main Arguments Lemley and Ouellette distinguish three separate problems conflated in AI debates: Copyright infringement protects economic in...

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[Fetch: https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/undeclared-ai-assisted-academic-writing-as-a-form-of-research-misconduct/]

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[Web search: "Harvard MIT Stanford AI generative AI academic integrity policy student research 2025"]

Tool result: I appreciate your question, but I must be direct: the web page content you've provided contains only a JavaScript redirect command (window.onload=function(){window.location.href="/lander"}). It cont...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "Harvard MIT Stanford AI generative AI academic integrity policy student research 2025" Links: [{"title":"HGSE AI Policy | Office of the Registrar","url":"https://regist...

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[Fetch: https://ukrio.org/ukrio-resources/ai-in-research/]

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[Web search: "COPE guidelines AI authorship disclosure academic publishing 2025"]

Tool result: # UKRIO Guidance on AI in Research ## Disclosure Requirements UKRIO emphasizes that "details of the use of LLMs must instead be declared in the Methods and/or Acknowledgements." AI tools cannot be l...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "COPE guidelines AI authorship disclosure academic publishing 2025" Links: [{"title":"Authorship and AI tools | COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics","url":"https://pub...

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Now I'll write the synthesised markdown file.

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[Write: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md]

Tool result: File created successfully at: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md

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Done. I've created LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md in the LLMoutput folder. The file covers:

All claims are linked to their sources inline, with a further reading section at the end.

Human (2)

[Opened file: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md]
Add a section in the same document @LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md at the top before the current section. In this one, collate and gather together sources that explore how the ethics of LLM use in work (i.e. the stuff in the "LLM use in research" interact with the deeper ethical issues around LLM use, including energy use, the fact that pirated materials have been used in its production, the centralised control it implies, and any other issues that occur to you.

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I'll research the broader ethical issues around LLMs and how they intersect with research ethics, then add a section at the top.

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[Web search: "LLM AI energy consumption environmental cost carbon footprint training inference 2025 research"]

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[Web search: "LLM training data pirated copyrighted books Books3 LibGen lawsuit 2025"]

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[Web search: "AI LLM centralised control power concentration Big Tech monopoly academic research ethics 2025"]

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[Web search: "AI ghost labour data labelling exploitation Global South Kenyan workers ethics 2025"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "LLM AI energy consumption environmental cost carbon footprint training inference 2025 research" Links: [{"title":"[2505.09598] How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Wa...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "LLM training data pirated copyrighted books Books3 LibGen lawsuit 2025" Links: [{"title":"Meta Wins Pivotal AI Copyright Case, Despite Judge Calling Its Claims 'Nonsens...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI ghost labour data labelling exploitation Global South Kenyan workers ethics 2025" Links: [{"title":"OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers Making $2 an Hour to Filter Traumatic ...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI LLM centralised control power concentration Big Tech monopoly academic research ethics 2025" Links: [{"title":"Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the...

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[Web search: "academic ethics using LLM research complicity environmental harm copyright exploitation structural ethics 2025"]

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[Web search: "AI water consumption data centres drought freshwater 2025 research"]

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[Fetch: https://ainowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FINAL-20250602_AINowLandscapeReport_Full.pdf]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI water consumption data centres drought freshwater 2025 research" Links: [{"title":"Data Centers and Water Consumption | Article | EESI","url":"https://www.eesi.org/a...

Tool result: I appreciate your request, but I need to be direct: the content you've provided appears to be a corrupted or improperly encoded PDF file. The text shows binary data, stream objects, and PDF formatting...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "academic ethics using LLM research complicity environmental harm copyright exploitation structural ethics 2025" Links: [{"title":"A Guide to Ethical Research with Large...

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[Web search: "AI Now Institute 2025 landscape report power concentration AI industry findings summary"]

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[Web search: ""epistemic dependency" OR "knowledge dependency" universities reliance commercial LLM AI tools research 2025"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI Now Institute 2025 landscape report power concentration AI industry findings summary" Links: [{"title":"Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report - AI Now Institute","...

Tool result: Web search results for query: ""epistemic dependency" OR "knowledge dependency" universities reliance commercial LLM AI tools research 2025" Links: [{"title":"The Epistemic Downside of Using LLM-Base...

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Now let me read the existing file to insert the new section.

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[Read: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md]

Tool result: 1→# LLM Use in Research: Is Uncited AI Use Plagiarism? 2→ 3→An initial claude-code-run survey of how universities, publishers, and researchers are grappling with whether uncited LLM use...

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[Edit: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md]

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Done. I've added a substantial new top-level section to the document covering five structural ethical dimensions, each with sourced evidence and an explicit "Implication for research ethics" connecting it back to the plagiarism/disclosure debate below:

  1. Environmental cost — energy consumption (training and inference), water use in data centres, regional drought impacts
  2. Pirated training data — Books3, LibGen, the Meta and Anthropic lawsuits, the contested "fair use" ruling, jurisdictional differences
  3. Labour exploitation — Kenyan RLHF workers paid $1–2/hour, suppressed unionisation, the colonial-extraction framing
  4. Centralised control — the compute divide between Big Tech and universities, the AI Now "Artificial Power" report, global funding inequality
  5. Epistemic dependency — universities ceding knowledge-governance authority to commercial platforms, cognitive dulling, the "producer to consumer" shift

The connecting argument: current university policies focus narrowly on citation and disclosure, but a researcher can fully comply with those requirements and still be participating in systems of environmental harm, IP appropriation, labour exploitation, and epistemic capture. The section ends by suggesting a fuller framework would ask not just "did you disclose?" but "what are you participating in?"

Human (3)

[Opened file: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md]
Do Claude Code dialogues like the one we're having here get permanently saved to a file? So that chats can later be recalled? If so, where are they located in my file system?

Assistant

Yes, Claude Code saves conversation logs. They're stored in your project-specific directory at:

~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/

The conversations are saved as JSONL files in a conversations/ subdirectory there. Let me confirm the exact location.

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ls ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/conversations/ 2>/dev/null | head -20

Tool result:

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find ~/.claude -name "*.jsonl" -type f 2>/dev/null | head -20

Tool result: /Users/danolner/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/agent-a4876e0.jsonl /Users/danolner/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl /Users/danolner/.clau...

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Yes — conversations are permanently saved as JSONL files in:

~/.claude/projects/<project-path>/

For this project specifically:

~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/

Each conversation gets a UUID filename like 26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl. The agent-*.jsonl files are subagent conversations (from when I use the Task tool to spawn background research agents). You can also see conversations from your other projects there (e.g. claude-wildboids, LIPF-synthesis, etc.).

You can resume a previous conversation from the CLI with claude --resume or by using the /resume command, which lets you pick from recent sessions. The JSONL format means each line is a JSON object representing a message turn, so they're machine-readable if you ever want to process them programmatically.

Human (4)

What's a good way to neatly read a project jsonl file?

Assistant

A few options depending on what you want:

Quick pretty-print in the terminal using jq:

cat ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq .

Just the human/assistant message text (filtering out tool calls and metadata):

cat <file>.jsonl | jq -r 'select(.type == "human" or .type == "assistant") | .type + ": " + (.message // .text // "" | tostring)'

Though the exact field names depend on the schema. Let me check what the structure actually looks like so I can give you something that works.

Assistant

head -3 ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq -c 'keys'

Tool result: ["isSnapshotUpdate","messageId","snapshot","type"] ["cwd","gitBranch","isSidechain","message","parentUuid","sessionId","thinkingMetadata","timestamp","todos","type","userType","uuid","version"] ["cwd"...

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sed -n '2p' ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq '{type, userType, message: (.message | type)}'

Tool result:

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sed -n '2p' ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq '.message | if type == "object" then {role, content_type: (.content | type)} else . end'

Tool result:

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# Check assistant message structure
sed -n '3p' ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq '.message | {role, content_type: (.content | type)}'

Tool result:

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sed -n '3p' ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq '.message.content[:2] | .[] | {type, text: (.text // .name // "" | tostring[:100])}'

Tool result:

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sed -n '3p' ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq '[.message.content[] | .type] | unique'

Tool result: [ "thinking" ]

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# Check a few more lines for text content
sed -n '4,8p' ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/26509334-cf00-4721-abcb-e626f474fafc.jsonl | jq -c '{type, content_types: (if .message.content then [.message.content[] | .type] | unique else [.message | type] end)}'

Tool result: {"type":"assistant","content_types":["text"]} {"type":"assistant","content_types":["tool_use"]} {"type":"assistant","content_types":["tool_use"]} {"type":"user","content_types":["tool_result"]} {"type...

Assistant

Good, now I know the schema. Here's what works:

The most useful one-liner — just the conversation text (skipping tool calls, tool results, and thinking blocks):

jq -r '
  select(.type == "user" or .type == "assistant") |
  .type as $t |
  if .message | type == "string" then "\n--- \($t) ---\n\(.message)"
  elif .message.content | type == "string" then "\n--- \($t) ---\n\(.message.content)"
  else
    [.message.content[] | select(.type == "text") | .text] |
    if length > 0 then "\n--- \($t) ---\n" + join("\n") else empty end
  end
' <file>.jsonl

This filters to only human/assistant turns, extracts just the text blocks (skipping thinking, tool_use, tool_result), and labels each turn.

Or if you want everything including tool calls for a full audit trail:

jq '.' <file>.jsonl | less

Python is also nice if you want more control:

import json
with open("<file>.jsonl") as f:
    for line in f:
        msg = json.loads(line)
        # process as you like

The jq approach is probably the quickest for casual reading. You could also pipe it through less or redirect to a .md file if you want to browse it more comfortably.

Human (5)

[Opened file: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]
Going back to @LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md - at the end of this doc, please add another section that considers the issue of AI language use outside of the more academic arguments about plagiarism. Specifically, consider arguments like those in the linked Conversation piece, and issues around LLM-driven equivalents of denail of service attacks, where industrial language production drowns out everything else. Outline and synthesise issues, search for connected relevant ideas, and include a final section on what sources suggest might be some positive approaches to all this. Include links, as you have been doing. The conversation article: https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-text-is-overwhelming-institutions-setting-off-a-no-win-arms-race-with-ai-detectors-274720

Assistant

Let me start by reading the existing document and the Conversation article.

Assistant

[Read: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

Tool result: 1→--- 2→tags: 3→ - AI 4→ - brainsystems 5→dg-publish: true 6→--- 7→# DAN-WRITTEN BIT (11th-Feb-2026) 8→## What's this doc? 9→ 10→A live / experim...

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[Fetch: https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-text-is-overwhelming-institutions-setting-off-a-no-win-arms-race-with-ai-detectors-274720]

Tool result: # Summary: AI-Generated Text Overwhelming Institutions ## Scale of the Problem The article documents pervasive AI-text flooding across multiple sectors. Examples include science fiction magazines ha...

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[Web search: "AI generated text flooding submissions journals magazines "denial of service" language volume 2025"]

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[Web search: ""AI slop" information pollution dead internet theory synthetic content overwhelming 2025"]

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[Web search: "AI generated spam academic peer review overwhelmed fake papers volume crisis 2025"]

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[Web search: "AI detector arms race false positives non-native English speakers bias unfair 2025"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI generated text flooding submissions journals magazines "denial of service" language volume 2025" Links: [{"title":"A bibliography of genAI-fueled research fraud from...

Tool result: Web search results for query: ""AI slop" information pollution dead internet theory synthetic content overwhelming 2025" Links: [{"title":"AI Slop I: Pollution in Our Communication Environment","url"...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI generated spam academic peer review overwhelmed fake papers volume crisis 2025" Links: [{"title":"AI tools tackle paper mill fraud overwhelming peer review","url":"h...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI detector arms race false positives non-native English speakers bias unfair 2025" Links: [{"title":"How accurate are AI detectors? A critical look in 2025","url":"htt...

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[Web search: "positive constructive approaches AI text flooding academic integrity "proof of personhood" human verification 2025"]

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[Web search: "AI literacy education critical thinking response AI slop constructive institutional adaptation 2025 2026"]

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[Web search: "process-based assessment oral examination portfolio alternative AI-proof academic integrity 2025"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "positive constructive approaches AI text flooding academic integrity "proof of personhood" human verification 2025" Links: [{"title":"Moving Beyond Plagiarism and AI De...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "process-based assessment oral examination portfolio alternative AI-proof academic integrity 2025" Links: [{"title":"Creating AI-Resistant Assignments, Activities, and A...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI literacy education critical thinking response AI slop constructive institutional adaptation 2025 2026" Links: [{"title":"Frontiers | Influence of AI literacy and 21s...

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[Web search: "AI content labelling watermarking provenance C2PA content authenticity initiative 2025 2026"]

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[Web search: "Hicks Humphries Slater "AI language" philosophical critique ChatGPT bullshit epistemic 2024 2025"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI content labelling watermarking provenance C2PA content authenticity initiative 2025 2026" Links: [{"title":"Strengthening Multimedia Integrity in the Generative AI E...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "Hicks Humphries Slater "AI language" philosophical critique ChatGPT bullshit epistemic 2024 2025" Links: [{"title":"Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries & Joe Slater,...

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[Todo update:]

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Now I'll write the new section at the end of the document.

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[Edit: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

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[Read: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

Tool result: 200→3. The author remains fully responsible for all content, including AI-generated material — a higher bar than many users appreciate. 201→4. **Whether undisclosed AI use is "plagiarism" re...

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[Edit: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

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[Read: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

Tool result: 210→- [A university framework for the responsible use of generative AI in research — Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1360080X.2025....

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[Edit: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

Tool result: The file /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md has been updated successfully.

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[Todo update:]

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Assistant

Done. Section 3 has been added at the end of the document. It covers six main areas plus a constructive-responses section:

  1. The Flooding Problem — the denial-of-service framing from the Conversation article, with concrete examples (Clarkesworld, Neurosurgical Review, ICLR 2026's 70% submission spike with 21% fully AI-generated reviews, arXiv's new peer-review requirement)

  2. "AI Slop" and Information Pollution — 52% of new English-language articles machine-generated by mid-2025, Spotify's 75 million removed spam tracks, propaganda campaigns built on synthetic content, the KR Institute's "communication pollution" framing

  3. The "Bullshit" Problem — Hicks, Humphries & Slater's Frankfurt-derived argument that LLM output is epistemically empty (not failed truth-seeking, but truth-indifferent), plus the Gunkel & Coghlan response

  4. The Arms Race and Detector Bias — Stanford's finding that 61% of non-native English speaker essays are flagged as AI, the MLA-CCCC warning about disproportionate harm to marginalised groups

  5. How this connects to the research ethics debate — arguing that the plagiarism framework breaks down when attribution becomes meaningless at scale, gatekeeping is overwhelmed, and the epistemic contract erodes

  6. Positive Approaches — content provenance (C2PA, SynthID), process-based/oral/portfolio assessment, critical AI literacy, and institutional adaptation over technological fix

Human (6)

[Opened file: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]
This is a great sentence of yours in the piece you just assembled: "Attend to power dynamics. The same AI tools that enable corporate astroturfing can also democratise access to legal and administrative language for people who previously couldn't afford it. Constructive policy needs to distinguish between these uses rather than treating all AI-generated text as equally suspect." Excellent. Could you search for and add any prominent sources for LLM tech being used for democratising access to that spot in the @LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md file?

Assistant

Good shout — let me find concrete examples of that.

Assistant

[Web search: "AI LLM democratising access legal services low income self-represented litigants 2025"]

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[Web search: "ChatGPT helping tenants immigrants navigate bureaucracy administrative language access 2025"]

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[Web search: "AI LLM plain language government services disability benefits welfare access democratise 2025"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "ChatGPT helping tenants immigrants navigate bureaucracy administrative language access 2025" Links: [{"title":"Immigrants’ Perceptions Towards Using Generative AI Conve...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI LLM plain language government services disability benefits welfare access democratise 2025" Links: [{"title":"How artificial intelligence is accelerating the digital...

Tool result: Web search results for query: "AI LLM democratising access legal services low income self-represented litigants 2025" Links: [{"title":"Harnessing AI to Improve Access to Justice in Civil Courts - SL...

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[Web search: "DoNotPay "robot lawyer" AI legal help evictions consumer rights low income 2024 2025"]

Tool result: Web search results for query: "DoNotPay "robot lawyer" AI legal help evictions consumer rights low income 2024 2025" Links: [{"title":"FTC Finalizes Order with DoNotPay That Prohibits Deceptive 'AI L...

Assistant

Now let me read the exact passage to edit and add the sourced examples.

Assistant

[Read: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

Tool result: 303→Rather than treating AI as a threat to be defended against, several frameworks argue for embedding critical AI literacy into education: 304→ 305→- Understanding how LLMs work (stati...

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[Read: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

Tool result: 312→ 313→- Redesign submission systems that assumed human-speed production — e.g. journals moving to invited contributions for formats like letters to the editor, rather than open submission...

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[Edit: /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md]

Tool result: The file /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md has been updated successfully.

Assistant

Done. I've expanded the "Attend to power dynamics" bullet with three sourced sub-sections:

Human (7)

Brilliant. Sorry, looping back to attempting to parse claude's JSONL records of these chats - could you summarise where you got to, and consider how to parse a JSONL into a human-readable markdown script?

Assistant

Sure. Here's where we got to: each conversation is a .jsonl file in ~/.claude/projects/<project-path>/, one JSON object per line. The schema is:

Let me write a quick script that converts one of these into readable markdown.

Assistant

ls -lt ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/*.jsonl | head -5

Tool result: -rw-------@ 1 danolner staff 756381 Feb 12 12:38 /Users/danolner/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl -rw-------@ 1 danolner staff 1073926 Feb 11 1...

Assistant

head -5 ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | jq -c '{type, userType, msg_type: (.message | type), content_summary: (if .message.content then (if (.message.content | type) == "array" then [.message.content[] | .type] | unique else "string" end) elif (.message | type) == "string" then "raw_string" else "other" end)}'

Tool result: {"type":"queue-operation","userType":null,"msg_type":"null","content_summary":"other"} {"type":"file-history-snapshot","userType":null,"msg_type":"null","content_summary":"other"} {"type":"user","user...

Assistant

# Check what a user message with "text" content type looks like
head -5 ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | jq -c 'select(.type == "user") | .message.content[:1][] | {type, text: (.text[:120)}'

Assistant

head -5 ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | jq -c 'select(.type == "user") | .message.content[:1][] | {type, text: (.text[:120] // "")}'

Tool result:

Assistant

# Check tool_use structure
sed -n '5p' ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | jq -c '.message.content[:1][] | {type, name: .name, input_keys: (.input | keys?)}'

Tool result:

Assistant

# Check tool_result structure  
cat ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | jq -c 'select(.type == "user") | .message.content[:1][] | select(.type == "tool_result") | {type, content_type: (.content | type), content_preview: (if (.content | type) == "string" then .content[:80] elif (.content | type) == "array" then [.content[] | .type] else null end)}' | head -3

Tool result: {"type":"tool_result","content_type":"string","content_preview":"Claude-draft of feedback guide.md\nFridman Irving Finkel transcript summary by ch"} {"type":"tool_result","content_type":"string","cont...

Assistant

Good, now I have the full picture. Let me write a Python script that handles all the cases cleanly.

Assistant

[Write: /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py]

Tool result: File created successfully at: /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py

Assistant

Let me test it on a conversation file.

Assistant

python3 /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | head -80

Tool result: File "/Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py", line 105 parts.append(f"[Web search: "{query}"]") ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps y...

Assistant

[Edit: /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py]

Tool result: The file /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py has been updated successfully.

Assistant

python3 /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | head -120

Tool result: # Claude Code Conversation Source: /Users/danolner/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl --- ## Human (1) *[Opened file: /Users/danolner/Code/Re...

Assistant

That works well. Let me also test the end of the conversation to make sure human turns and the longer assistant prose render properly.

Assistant

python3 /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | tail -60

Tool result: ## Assistant Good, now I have the full picture. Let me write a Python script that handles all the cases cleanly. ## Assistant [Write: /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py] #...

Assistant

It's working nicely. The script is at scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py. Usage:

# Print to stdout
python3 scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl

# Write to a file
python3 scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl output.md

# Pipe to less for browsing
python3 scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py <file>.jsonl | less

What it does:

The result is a readable conversation transcript — you can see who said what, what tools were called, and follow the flow without wading through raw JSON.

Human (8)

That's amazing. But it's not quite right yet. Could you check the @scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py script and see if this is fixable? It's outputting stages of Claude Code processing as human input but they're not. So e.g. in @output.md, Human(1) is correctly human, but human(2) to human(20) are Claude Code steps output to the JSONL. The next actual human one written by me was human(21). Is it possible to clearly see that in the JSONL itself and then tweak the python code?

Assistant

Good catch. Let me look at what distinguishes your actual messages from tool results in the JSONL.

Assistant

cat ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | jq -c 'select(.type == "user") | {userType, content_types: (if .message.content then (if (.message.content | type) == "array" then [.message.content[] | .type] else ["string"] end) elif (.message | type) == "string" then ["raw_string"] else ["other"] end)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

Tool result: 81 {"userType":"external","content_types":["tool_result"]} 5 {"userType":"external","content_types":["text","text"]} 3

Assistant

They're all "external" — so userType doesn't help. But the content types do: your actual messages have "text" blocks, while tool results have "tool_result" blocks. Let me verify that's a clean split.

Assistant

# Check if any user messages mix text and tool_result blocks
cat ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl | jq -c 'select(.type == "user") | {types: [.message.content[]? | .type] | unique} | select(.types | length > 1)'

Tool result:

Assistant

Clean split — no messages mix both types. So the fix is simple: only count a message as a Human turn when its content blocks contain "text" type (your actual input). Messages that only contain "tool_result" blocks are system responses to tool calls and should be labelled differently.

Assistant

[Read: /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py]

Tool result: 1→#!/usr/bin/env python3 2→"""Convert a Claude Code conversation .jsonl file to readable markdown. 3→ 4→Usage: 5→ python jsonl_to_markdown.py <input.jsonl> [output.md] ...

Assistant

The issue is clear: in the convert function, line 159 treats all user+external messages as human turns. But tool results also come through as user+external — the only difference is the content block types. I need to check whether the content contains any "text" blocks (your input) vs only "tool_result" blocks (system responses).

Assistant

[Edit: /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py]

Tool result: The file /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py has been updated successfully.

Assistant

Now let me test it.

Assistant

python3 /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl 2>/dev/null | grep -n "^## Human" | head -20

Tool result: 8:## Human (1) 179:## Human (2) 336:## Human (3) 390:## Human (4) 519:## Human (5) 708:## Human (6) 782:## Human (7) 942:## Human (8)

Assistant

Good — way fewer Human turns now. Let me verify the content of the first few is actually your text.

Assistant

python3 /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl 2>/dev/null | sed -n '8,12p; 179,183p; 336,340p; 390,394p; 519,523p'

Tool result: ## Human (1) [Opened file: /Users/danolner/Code/Regecon_modular_writeup/chunks.yml] In the folder @LLMoutput, start a new markdown .md file with the following bit of initial research: find and synt...

Assistant

That's exactly right now. Human (1) through (8) are all genuinely your messages. Let me regenerate the output file.

Assistant

python3 /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl /Users/danolner/thevault/output.md

Tool result: Written to /Users/danolner/thevault/output.md

Assistant

Fixed. The distinction was clean: in the JSONL, all messages are type: "user" with userType: "external", but:

The script now checks for the presence of "text" blocks to decide whether something is a genuine human turn. The result: this conversation now shows 8 Human turns (your actual inputs) instead of the previous 88. Tool results still appear in the output as indented blockquotes under the preceding assistant turn, but they no longer get ## Human headers or increment the turn counter.

Human (9)

This session is being continued from a previous conversation that ran out of context. The summary below covers the earlier portion of the conversation.

Analysis:
Let me go through the conversation chronologically:

  1. First request: User asked to create a new markdown file in LLMoutput folder with research on university ethics advice about LLM use in research, specifically about whether uncited LLM use = plagiarism. I searched extensively and created /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md.

  2. Second request: User asked to add a section at the top of that same document about deeper ethical issues (energy use, pirated training data, centralised control, etc.). I researched and added a large section covering environmental cost, pirated data, labour exploitation, centralised control, and epistemic dependency.

  3. Third request: User asked whether Claude Code dialogues get saved permanently. I found they're in ~/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/ as JSONL files.

  4. Fourth request: User asked about reading JSONL files. I explored the schema with jq, then wrote a Python script scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py.

  5. Fifth request: User asked to add Section 3 to LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md about AI language flooding/denial-of-service, AI slop, and positive approaches. I researched and added this section.

  6. Sixth request: User highlighted the "Attend to power dynamics" sentence and asked for sources on LLM democratising access. I found and added sources about access to justice, bureaucracy navigation, and cautionary notes.

  7. Seventh request: User asked me to revisit the JSONL-to-markdown script, noting that tool results were being counted as Human turns. I investigated and found the fix: check for "text" type blocks (human input) vs "tool_result" blocks (system responses). Fixed the script.

Key files:

Errors:

  1. SyntaxError with curly quotes in f-string for WebSearch - fixed by switching to single-quoted f-string
  2. Multiple "File has been modified since read" errors when editing the guidelines doc - fixed by re-reading
  3. The Human turn numbering bug - fixed by checking content block types

The user's last explicit task was the JSONL script fix, which is now complete.

Summary:

  1. Primary Request and Intent:
    The user is building a living document about LLM ethics and personal guidelines for LLM use in research. Their requests formed a progressive research-and-writing workflow:

    • Create a sourced markdown document on whether uncited LLM use constitutes plagiarism
    • Add a preceding section on deeper structural ethics (energy, pirated data, labour, centralisation, epistemic dependency)
    • These sections were integrated into a main document LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md which has the user's own writing at the top followed by Claude-written report sections
    • Add a third report section on industrial-scale language production, denial-of-service through text flooding, AI slop, and positive approaches
    • Expand the "democratising access" point with concrete sourced examples
    • Separately: understand where Claude Code saves conversations, how to read JSONL files, and build a Python script to convert JSONL conversations to readable markdown
    • Fix the JSONL converter so tool results aren't counted as Human turns

  2. Key Technical Concepts:

    • Claude Code conversation storage: JSONL files in ~/.claude/projects/<project-path>/
    • JSONL schema: type ("user"/"assistant"), userType ("external"), message.content array with block types ("text", "tool_use", "tool_result", "thinking")
    • Key distinction: human messages have "text" content blocks; tool results have "tool_result" content blocks — both share type: "user" and userType: "external"
    • The user's document structure: Dan-written sections at top, clearly marked Claude-Code-written report sections below (numbered 1, 2, 3)
    • Obsidian-style frontmatter (YAML tags, dg-publish, wikilinks like [[11th-Feb-2026]])

  3. Files and Code Sections:

    • /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md

      • Main working document. User's own reflections at top (lines 1-49), then three Claude-written report sections
      • Section 1: "The Deeper Ethics of LLM Use" — environmental cost, pirated training data, labour exploitation, centralised control, epistemic dependency
      • Section 2: "LLM Use in Research: Is Uncited AI Use Plagiarism?" — university policies, research misconduct framing, publisher positions, emerging consensus
      • Section 3: "Beyond Plagiarism: Industrial Language Production and the Denial-of-Service Problem" — flooding problem, AI slop, the "bullshit" problem (Hicks et al.), detector bias, positive approaches (C2PA, process-based assessment, AI literacy, institutional adaptation, democratising access with sources)
      • The "Attend to power dynamics" bullet was expanded with sub-sections on access to justice (Stanford Law/LA Superior Court, Yale Law Journal, ABA), navigating bureaucracy (Portugal gov.pt, Greece mAigov, Nordic immigrant research), and cautionary notes (DoNotPay FTC fine, Harvard JOLT, UK welfare AI concerns)

    • /Users/danolner/thevault/LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md

      • Originally created standalone, content was later incorporated into the guidelines doc above
      • Still exists as a separate file

    • /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py

      • Converts Claude Code JSONL conversation files to readable markdown
      • Key function _has_human_text(content) — checks if content blocks contain "text" type (human input) vs only "tool_result" (system responses)
      • Full current code:
      #!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Convert a Claude Code conversation .jsonl file to readable markdown.
Usage:
    python jsonl_to_markdown.py <input.jsonl> [output.md]
If no output path is given, writes to stdout.
"""
import json
import sys
import textwrap
from pathlib import Path

def extract_user_text(content):
    """Extract readable text from user message content."""
    if isinstance(content, str):
        return content
    parts = []
    for block in content:
        if block.get("type") == "text":
            text = block.get("text", "")
            if "<ide_opened_file>" in text:
                import re
                opened = re.findall(r"<ide_opened_file>(.*?)</ide_opened_file>", text)
                for o in opened:
                    parts.append(f"*[Opened file: {o.split('opened the file ')[-1].split(' in the IDE')[0]}]*")
                cleaned = re.sub(r"<ide_opened_file>.*?</ide_opened_file>", "", text).strip()
                if cleaned:
                    parts.append(cleaned)
            elif "<system-reminder>" in text:
                import re
                cleaned = re.sub(r"<system-reminder>.*?</system-reminder>", "", text, flags=re.DOTALL).strip()
                if cleaned:
                    parts.append(cleaned)
            else:
                parts.append(text)
        elif block.get("type") == "tool_result":
            result_content = block.get("content", "")
            if isinstance(result_content, str):
                preview = result_content[:200].replace("\n", " ")
                if len(result_content) > 200:
                    preview += "..."
                parts.append(f"> **Tool result:** {preview}")
            elif isinstance(result_content, list):
                for sub in result_content:
                    if sub.get("type") == "text":
                        preview = sub.get("text", "")[:200].replace("\n", " ")
                        parts.append(f"> **Tool result:** {preview}")
    return "\n".join(parts)

def extract_assistant_text(content):
    """Extract readable text from assistant message content."""
    parts = []
    for block in content:
        btype = block.get("type", "")
        if btype == "text":
            text = block.get("text", "").strip()
            if text:
                parts.append(text)
        elif btype == "tool_use":
            name = block.get("name", "unknown")
            inp = block.get("input", {})
            if name == "Bash":
                cmd = inp.get("command", "")
                desc = inp.get("description", "")
                label = f" *({desc})*" if desc else ""
                parts.append(f"```bash{label}\n{cmd}\n```")
            elif name == "Read":
                path = inp.get("file_path", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Read: `{path}`]*")
            elif name == "Write":
                path = inp.get("file_path", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Write: `{path}`]*")
            elif name == "Edit":
                path = inp.get("file_path", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Edit: `{path}`]*")
            elif name == "Glob":
                pattern = inp.get("pattern", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Glob: `{pattern}`]*")
            elif name == "Grep":
                pattern = inp.get("pattern", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Grep: `{pattern}`]*")
            elif name == "WebSearch":
                query = inp.get("query", "")
                parts.append(f'*[Web search: "{query}"]*')
            elif name == "WebFetch":
                url = inp.get("url", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Fetch: {url}]*")
            elif name == "TodoWrite":
                todos = inp.get("todos", [])
                items = [f"  - [{t.get('status', '?')}] {t.get('content', '')}" for t in todos]
                parts.append("*[Todo update:]*\n" + "\n".join(items))
            elif name == "Task":
                desc = inp.get("description", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Spawned agent: {desc}]*")
            elif name == "Skill":
                skill = inp.get("skill", "")
                parts.append(f"*[Skill: {skill}]*")
            else:
                parts.append(f"*[Tool: {name}]*")
        elif btype == "thinking":
            pass
    return "\n\n".join(parts)

def _has_human_text(content):
    """Check if a user message content contains actual human text blocks
    (as opposed to only tool_result blocks, which are system responses)."""
    if isinstance(content, str):
        return True
    if not isinstance(content, list):
        return False
    return any(block.get("type") == "text" for block in content)

def convert(input_path, output_file=None):
    lines = Path(input_path).read_text().strip().split("\n")
    out = []
    out.append(f"# Claude Code Conversation\n")
    out.append(f"*Source: `{input_path}`*\n")
    out.append("---\n")
    turn_num = 0
    for line in lines:
        try:
            msg = json.loads(line)
        except json.JSONDecodeError:
            continue
        msg_type = msg.get("type", "")
        if msg_type not in ("user", "assistant"):
            continue
        user_type = msg.get("userType", "")
        message = msg.get("message", "")
        if msg_type == "user":
            if isinstance(message, dict):
                content = message.get("content", "")
            else:
                content = message
            if _has_human_text(content):
                text = extract_user_text(content)
                if text.strip():
                    turn_num += 1
                    out.append(f"\n## Human ({turn_num})\n")
                    out.append(text)
                    out.append("")
            else:
                text = extract_user_text(content if isinstance(content, list) else [])
                if text.strip():
                    out.append(text)
                    out.append("")
        elif msg_type == "assistant":
            content = message.get("content", []) if isinstance(message, dict) else []
            text = extract_assistant_text(content)
            if text.strip():
                out.append(f"\n## Assistant\n")
                out.append(text)
                out.append("")
    result = "\n".join(out)
    if output_file:
        Path(output_file).write_text(result)
        print(f"Written to {output_file}", file=sys.stderr)
    else:
        print(result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print("Usage: python jsonl_to_markdown.py <input.jsonl> [output.md]", file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(1)
    input_path = sys.argv[1]
    output_path = sys.argv[2] if len(sys.argv) > 2 else None
    convert(input_path, output_path)

    • /Users/danolner/thevault/output.md — test output from the converter (regenerated after the fix)

  4. Errors and fixes:

    • SyntaxError in f-string with curly quotes: Line 105 had f"*[Web search: "{query}"]*" with Unicode curly quotes inside an f-string. Fixed by switching to single-quoted f-string: f'*[Web search: "{query}"]*'
    • "File has been modified since read" errors (multiple occurrences): When editing LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md, the file was modified by the user between read and edit. Fixed by re-reading the file before each edit attempt.
    • Human turn numbering bug (user feedback): User pointed out that tool results were being counted as Human turns (88 "Human" turns instead of 8 actual ones). Root cause: all user messages have type: "user" and userType: "external" regardless of whether they're human input or tool results. Fixed by adding _has_human_text() function that checks whether content blocks contain "text" type (human) vs only "tool_result" type (system). After fix: 8 correctly numbered Human turns.

  5. Problem Solving:

    • Explored Claude Code JSONL schema iteratively using jq to understand message structure before writing the converter
    • Discovered that userType doesn't distinguish human input from tool results (both are "external")
    • Found the clean distinguishing signal: content block types ("text" vs "tool_result")
    • Handled multiple edge cases in the converter: IDE metadata tags, system reminders, various tool types, string vs object message formats

  6. All user messages:

    • "In the folder @LLMoutput, start a new markdown .md file with the following bit of initial research: find and synthesise sources including university research ethics advice on using LLM for research, reflecting specifically on how different places / universities have thought about whether uncited LLM use is identical to plagiarism. Provided embedded links to sources you find."
    • "Add a section in the same document @LLMoutput/LLM use in research - plagiarism or something else.md at the top before the current section. In this one, collate and gather together sources that explore how the ethics of LLM use in work (i.e. the stuff in the 'LLM use in research' interact with the deeper ethical issues around LLM use, including energy use, the fact that pirated materials have been used in its production, the centralised control it implies, and any other issues that occur to you."
    • "Do Claude Code dialogues like the one we're having here get permanently saved to a file? So that chats can later be recalled? If so, where are they located in my file system?"
    • "What's a good way to neatly read a project jsonl file?"
    • "Going back to @LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md - at the end of this doc, please add another section that considers the issue of AI language use outside of the more academic arguments about plagiarism. Specifically, consider arguments like those in the linked Conversation piece, and issues around LLM-driven equivalents of denial of service attacks, where industrial language production drowns out everything else. Outline and synthesise issues, search for connected relevant ideas, and include a final section on what sources suggest might be some positive approaches to all this. Include links, as you have been doing. The conversation article: https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-text-is-overwhelming-institutions-setting-off-a-no-win-arms-race-with-ai-detectors-274720"
    • "This is a great sentence of yours in the piece you just assembled: 'Attend to power dynamics. The same AI tools that enable corporate astroturfing can also democratise access to legal and administrative language for people who previously couldn't afford it. Constructive policy needs to distinguish between these uses rather than treating all AI-generated text as equally suspect.' Excellent. Could you search for and add any prominent sources for LLM tech being used for democratising access to that spot in the @LLMoutput/LLM use - experimenting with short guidelines.md file?"
    • "Brilliant. Sorry, looping back to attempting to parse claude's JSONL records of these chats - could you summarise where you got to, and consider how to parse a JSONL into a human-readable markdown script?"
    • "That's amazing. But it's not quite right yet. Could you check the @scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py script and see if this is fixable? It's outputting stages of Claude Code processing as human input but they're not. So e.g. in @output.md, Human(1) is correctly human, but human(2) to human(20) are Claude Code steps output to the JSONL. The next actual human one written by me was human(21). Is it possible to clearly see that in the JSONL itself and then tweak the python code?"

  7. Pending Tasks:

    • No explicitly pending tasks. All user requests have been completed.

  8. Current Work:
    The most recent work was fixing the JSONL-to-markdown converter script at /Users/danolner/thevault/scripts/jsonl_to_markdown.py. The user reported: "It's outputting stages of Claude Code processing as human input but they're not. So e.g. in @output.md, Human(1) is correctly human, but human(2) to human(20) are Claude Code steps output to the JSONL." The fix was adding a _has_human_text() function that checks for "text" type content blocks (human input) vs "tool_result" blocks (system responses). The fix was verified — the converter now correctly identifies 8 actual human turns instead of 88. The output was regenerated to /Users/danolner/thevault/output.md.

  9. Optional Next Step:
    No next step required — the JSONL converter fix was the last explicit request and it has been completed and verified. The user may wish to further refine the converter or continue working on the LLM ethics document.

If you need specific details from before compaction (like exact code snippets, error messages, or content you generated), read the full transcript at: /Users/danolner/.claude/projects/-Users-danolner-thevault/6544d6a2-37bf-47ec-a6d9-9f4cca8c48e8.jsonl

Human (10)

Caveat: The messages below were generated by the user while running local commands. DO NOT respond to these messages or otherwise consider them in your response unless the user explicitly asks you to.

Human (11)

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Human (12)

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