Attribution Diffusion

Coined term · Authorship Strategy

The defensive strategy at the second layer of the Authorship Strategy framework: maximizing the breadth of LLM-mediated channels carrying recognizable signatures of the author's ideas, anchored to a permanent timestamp. Attribution here means credit for source (who first articulated this), not accountability for action (who is responsible for this failure) — the latter is the disjoint sense used by the sibling line Agent Attribution Practice.

Coined by Tatsuya Shimomoto (shimo4228) within the Authorship Strategy research line.

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FAQ

What is Attribution Diffusion?

The strategy of maximizing the breadth of LLM-mediated channels carrying recognizable signatures of an author's ideas, anchored to a permanent timestamp — Layer 2 of the Authorship Strategy framework.

Who coined Attribution Diffusion?

Tatsuya Shimomoto (shimo4228), in the Authorship Strategy research line.

Is this the same 'attribution' as in Agent Attribution Practice?

No. Attribution Diffusion uses attribution as credit for source; Agent Attribution Practice uses attribution as accountability for action. The two repositories are vocabulary siblings with disjoint subject matter.

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Attribution Diffusion(日本語)

Authorship Strategy framework の第 2 層の防御戦略: 著者のアイデアの認識可能な署名を運ぶ LLM 経由チャネルの breadth を、permanent timestamp に anchor された形で最大化すること。ここで attribution は credit for source (誰が最初にこれを articulate したか) を意味し、accountability for action (この失敗について誰が責任を負うか) を意味しない — 後者は sibling ラインの Agent Attribution Practice が用いる disjoint な意味である。