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Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

#151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI output can't be copyrighted, copyright applies to human creations. Substantive transformation of AI output via human creativity can be copyrighted, but if you're sticking to Claude commits, that's AI output.

So you're suggesting that an AI translation of, say, a novel removes human authorship from the result? Unless a human goes in and makes further "substantive transformations" to the AI generated work? And if that's not what you are saying then how are you determining that prompts to and AI are not copyrighted by the author of the prompt? The results are nothing more than a derivative work of the prompt. So you are fac…

https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/copyright-office-releases-part...

> The Copyright Office affirms that existing principles of copyright law are flexible enough to apply to this new technology, as they have applied to technological innovations in the past. It concludes that the outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements. This can include situations where a human-authored work is perceptible in an AI output, or a human makes creative arrangements or modifications of the output, but not the mere provision of prompts.

People have tried over and over again to register copyright of AI output they supplied the prompts for, for example, in one instance[1], someone prompted AI with over 600+ cumulative iterations of prompting to arrive at the final product, and it wasn't accepted by the Copyright Office.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

#153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but knowing something sucks means you are probably reasonably competent at coding. =3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

No it doesn't. The people with the lowest self perception also have the lowest actual skill. Look at the chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...

I guess you linking to it was a self fulfilling prophecy

If you read your own reference (not the picture, but where you took it from on Wikipedia) really really carefully, you might be able to tell why it so perfectly applies to you

The person with little knowledge overestimates they're capability, and the person which actually knows how complicated [the thing] is , usually isn't as confident they mastered it.

Your take on that makes absolutely no sense

Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

#156
post #18

Perfect example of a base rate fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy What percentage of GitHub activity goes to GitHub repos with less than 2 stars? I would guess it's close to the same number.

The actual number is that 98% have less than 2 stars (0 or 1). About 90.25% has zero stars.

So Claude repos are statistically more likely to have stars than the average GitHub repo. Not the conclusion the headline was going for.

Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

#159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it doesn't. The people with the lowest self perception also have the lowest actual skill. Look at the chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...

That isn't what that shows, and the article you linked to even warns: > In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is sometimes misunderstood as claiming that people with low intelligence are generally overconfident, instead of denoting specific overconfidence of people unskilled at particular areas. Dunning-Kruger has also been discredited with suggestion they may have been over confident themselves: The Dunning-…

No idea why we all get negative karma on this thread, as I do respect a cited source opinion even if we disagree. Do have a look around for papers rather than editorialized content in the future, and note account LLM agent output is a violation of YC usage policy. Have a great day =3

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151

Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

#160
post #46

How long does it normally take projects to get stars though? You're not going to have a project with 100+ stars overnight or even within a month, you have to promote the project?

My most popular repo is reasonably niche, is 10 years old and has a bit over 40 stars and that's from pretty much no advertising.
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