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Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by awesome_dude »

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #33

Is AI responsible for the committed code? Should AI be blamed when services go down due to the change? The answer is absolutely not - the developer is responsible whether the code was AI assisted or not, and the dev's name should be attached to it just like any change. The OP is right: these are ads, plain and simple, and it's a dark pattern for these companies to have attribution enabled by default

When a paper is submitted to a reputable publication references are demanded.

You have to let people know where your ideas are supported, or even come from.

To do anything else is plagiarism.

AI isn't a co-contributer - but it should be referenced - just like a link to a Stack Overflow comment when that's the source of code.

Having AI referenced in the commit is (IMO) best practice - but only co-contributer attributes are available (for now)

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by cautiouscat »

neilv wrote: post #62
cautiouscat wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The dark pattern was adding the name of the product. An acceptable pattern would be “Written with the help of an LLM”.

I disagree. Imagine a human co-author on a work. "Written with a co-author" would not be sufficient attribution.

That’s Apples to Oranges. Me saying “Co-authored by Joe Smith” gives the human, Joe Smith, possible exposure and definite credit.

“Co-authored by Copilot” gives a multi billion dollar corp free advertising. I don’t care about them. I do care about Joe though.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

#75

Post by munchler »

> Disclose your "AI" tools in a merge request if needed but leave them out of the damn commits, those are for technical information and not for advertising.

I think this is very poor advice. Knowing who/what changed the code is often crucial for understanding why it changed.

Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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Post by gib444 »

zetanor wrote: post #55

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Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

#79

Post by [deleted] »

lifthrasiir wrote: post #34
sestep wrote: post #23

I mean, sure, except that many large open-source projects (e.g. Linux [1], Nixpkgs [2], etc) require this as part of their AI policy. Omit attribution in your own projects if you want, but the maintainers of these projects are owed at least that level of transparency for contributions. [1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d18b8f3238abdb2cd878...

Notably though, Linux's requirement (Assisted-by) is different from what Claude Code actually does (Co-Authored-By). I'm not sure, but it might be intentional (to make the signaling explicit).

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Re: Stop Advertising in Your Commits

#80

Post by ok_dad »

neilv wrote: post #62
cautiouscat wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The dark pattern was adding the name of the product. An acceptable pattern would be “Written with the help of an LLM”.

I disagree. Imagine a human co-author on a work. "Written with a co-author" would not be sufficient attribution.

A clanker isn’t a human it’s a tool. I don’t write “Coauthored by VSCode” when I use find and replace.
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