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> it’s a very subtle question exactly where you cross the line that comes with an obligation to credit others

What he means is there are clusters that systematically avoid citing the true origins of important concepts related to computational learning, and prefer to only cite their own "cluster members", a phenomenon that in scientometrics is known as a citation cartel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_cartel




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