You'll never win this battle, so why waste feelings and energy on it? That's where the internet is headed. There's no magical human verification technology coming to save us.

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584683.)

But will this be released as a feature? For me it seems like it's an Anthropic internal tool to secretly contribute to public repositories to test new models etc.

That's gonna need an explanation. From the ethics/safety/alignment people.

> Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does.

The undercover mode prompt was generated using AI.

Also unintentionally reveals something:

> Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does.

That's not what a commit message is for, that's what the diff is for. The commit message should explain WHY.

Sadly not doing that likely does indeed make it appear more human...

This is my pet peeve with LLMs, they almost always fails to write like a normal human would. Mentioning logs, or other meta-things which is not at all interesting.

I pretend to be human most days. I call it the daily facade of who I want to be on a given day. Oh humanity.

Heh, this is what people who are hostile against AI-generated contributions get. I always figured it'd happen soon enough, and here it is in the wild. Who knows where else it's happening...

Time to ask if the contributor know what a Capybara is as a new Turing test

1) This seems to be for strictly Antrophic interal tooling 2) It does not "pretend to be human" it is instructed to "Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does."

Since when "describe only what the code change does" is pretending to be human?

You guys are just mining for things to moan about at this point.

The first two zips I download today were 9.887.340 bytes, why is yours 10.222.630 bytes?

That whole “feature” is vile.

I am Jacques' complete lack of surprise.