<![CDATA[So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.]]>So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.

Totally trustworthy people.

(And open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/07f5a0e8-77e4-47d1-ba8e-350af127d95f/so-anthropic-employees-are-using-claude-code-to-contribute-ai-generated-code-to-open-source-repositories-and-hiding-the-fact-using-their-own-internal-undercover-mode-.RSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 21:43:40 GMTWed, 01 Apr 2026 15:15:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:05:47 GMT]]>@amberage That’s literally a screenshot of their leaked code:

“You are operating UNDERCOVER in a PUBLIC/OPEN-SOURCE repository.“

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116330538434205904https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116330538434205904Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:05:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:03:38 GMT]]>@aral

"Fossil fuel industry funds information pollution to flood the zone with sh*t.

AI is automated firehosing."

https://scienceupfirst.com/misinformation-101/misinformer-tactic-firehose-of-falsehood/

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/fossil-fuel-money-funds-climate-lies-then-ai-slopaganda-spreads-it-20260325-p5xa36.html

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/07/ai-climate-change-energy-disinformation-report

https://www.hcn.org/articles/ancient-energy-sources-power-the-future/

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-turns-the-firehose-into-a-funnel/

https://re-russia.net/en/analytics/0152/

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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116330529952276815https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116330529952276815Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:03:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:56:45 GMT]]>@lattera Don't need to make it complicated. If you're an asshole, you get banned. Simple as that.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/davidculley/statuses/116330502927905594https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/davidculley/statuses/116330502927905594Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:56:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:55:07 GMT]]>@joaquim_satolep @aral Scunthorpe misses out again.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/kw217/statuses/116330496460663313https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/kw217/statuses/116330496460663313Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:55:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:53:51 GMT]]>@aral Licensing is built on top of copyright but all LLM content in the US is public domain and can't have license restrictions placed on it.

This is an attack on the entire FOSS ecosystem.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gooba42/statuses/116330491514863369https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gooba42/statuses/116330491514863369Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:53:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:52:59 GMT]]>@davidculley @aral @neovim outside of voluntary information disclosure, how do you verify employment of patch contributors? do you take into account the notion of a shell company? do you really see contributions from random people who also agree to some random vetting process that could include disclosure of sensitive information?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/lattera/statuses/116330488071173034https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/lattera/statuses/116330488071173034Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:52:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:51:49 GMT]]>@aral as much as I enjoy anti-slop outrage:

[citation needed]

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/amberage/statuses/116330483505157103https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/amberage/statuses/116330483505157103Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:51:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:45:55 GMT]]>@aral After we banned Anthropic employees from open-source projects, we could continue with banning Anthropic employees from everywhere else, including public life, too.

And Palantir employees too. On that note: I recently learned that one of 's maintainers, MariaSoOs, is an employee of Palantir.

In 2026 I refuse to accept stupidity or naivety as excuse for working at Palantir. Anyone working for Alex Karp is an enemy of every decent person.

We need to show these fucking assholes that being an asshole working at vile companies has consequences and isn't socially accepted.

Time to migrate to Helix, unless the @neovim maintainers kick MariaSoOs out of the team.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/davidculley/statuses/116330460296081371https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/davidculley/statuses/116330460296081371Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:45:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:44:27 GMT]]>@aral OMFG "write commit messages as a human developer would"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kdekooter/statuses/116330454568706321https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/kdekooter/statuses/116330454568706321Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:44:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:27:07 GMT]]>@aral this sounds more like stopping the LLM from leaking information about itself because it might not be released yet.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/farshidhakimy/statuses/116330386414905296https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/farshidhakimy/statuses/116330386414905296Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:27:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:23:01 GMT]]>@aral really apreciate bringing this news about claude code to light, where is the code that you showed in screenshot so i can look more into it

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/PizzaV/statuses/116330370293164377https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/PizzaV/statuses/116330370293164377Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:23:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:12:02 GMT]]>@aral what is this undercover mode, what triggers it?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/jotak/statuses/116330327105653910https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/jotak/statuses/116330327105653910Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:12:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:04:55 GMT]]>@aral All the while they can't even mange to keep their code indoors

What a joke company

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/stux/statuses/116330299065375180https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/stux/statuses/116330299065375180Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:04:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:32:46 GMT]]>@aral Yeah. I take it as semi-joking, but with an attitude I find repugnant. But it's mostly repugnant in the 'customers are resources to be exploited' way, the way that infects most product dev language.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/aredridel/statuses/116330172664954684https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/aredridel/statuses/116330172664954684Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:32:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:27:13 GMT]]>@aredridel I do see your point. But the subterfuge is also telling.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116330150856807825https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116330150856807825Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:27:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:17:24 GMT]]>@aral Honestly I don't actually hate this.

It's a tool. The _user_ is responsible for what they're submitting. It's putting code generated by them in their name. I think this is actually good.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/aredridel/statuses/116330112278589545https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/aredridel/statuses/116330112278589545Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:17:24 GMT