> There's no way Claude/AI recreated another persons app exactly, with the same name and branding, without being told to do so in some way.

If you give a description of the app you want, and it matches another persons Open Source app. Then why wouldn't Claude do what it does every other time and pull from it's corpus of knowledge?

Now I would expect the human-in-the-chain to verify what is going on and ultimately they are responsible for any output they lay claim to.

In this case, AI assisted or not, it is a dick move. TFA claims they are backing out of this space completely - which is the correct thing to do.

But as with all "my punch simply slipped!" apologies their reputation is tarnished and they will need to demonstrate they are better in future - not simply say so.

> The solution is clear: yes we use AI, and we're okay with it.

Except that some portion of D'addario's customers--presumably those that actually buy their guitar strings to create music via real guitars--aren't okay with it.

> There's no way Claude/AI recreated another persons app exactly

Entropy doesn't need to be set to zero for legally significant duplication