Perhaps the most discussed technical detail is the “Undercover Mode.” This feature reveals that Anthropic uses Claude Code for “stealth” contributions to public open-source repositories.
The system prompt discovered in the leak explicitly warns the model: “You are operating UNDERCOVER… Your commit messages… MUST NOT contain ANY Anthropic-internal information. Do not blow your cover.”
Laws should have been put in place years ago to make it so that AI usage needs to be explicitly declared.
The system prompt discovered in the leak explicitly warns the model: “You are operating UNDERCOVER… Your commit messages… MUST NOT contain ANY Anthropic-internal information. Do not blow your cover.”
This is so incredibly stupid.
You’ve tried security.
You’ve tried security through obscurity.
Now try security through giving instructions to an LLM via a system prompt to not blow its cover.
In Europe we have the AI act which, as of August, will introduce some form of transparency obligations. Not perfect obviously but a start. Probably will not be followed by the rest of the world though so like GDPR it will be forcibly eroded by other’s interests through lobbying but at least we try.
That doesn’t sound like it is saying don’t identify yourself. That it’s called claude isn’t internal information. So it doesn’t seem that instruction is doing tpwhat you are saying. Must be more instructions.
If it was the law then the AI itself would be coded to not allow going “undercover”, and there would be legal consequences if caught. Torvald’s stance only matters for how things ‘are’ not how they ‘could be’.
Would it be a cure all? Of course not. Fraud still happens despite the illegality. But it’s better than not being able to trust anything ever again.
Like for driving over the speed limit? Or putting glass in the regular trash instead of the recycling? Yeah, just what I need in my life, another arbitrary law that’s enforced 0.0001% of the time as a flex by the people in power to target and abuse people they don’t like.
With how massive of a computer science field artificial intelligence is and how much of it already is or is getting added to every piece of software that exists, a label like that would be equally useless as the California prop 65 cancer warnings.
Do you use a mobile keyboard that supports swipe typing and has autocorrect? Remember to mark everything you write as being AI assisted.
Laws should have been put in place years ago to make it so that AI usage needs to be explicitly declared.
This is so incredibly stupid.
You’ve tried security.
You’ve tried security through obscurity.
Now try security through giving instructions to an LLM via a system prompt to not blow its cover.
In Europe we have the AI act which, as of August, will introduce some form of transparency obligations. Not perfect obviously but a start. Probably will not be followed by the rest of the world though so like GDPR it will be forcibly eroded by other’s interests through lobbying but at least we try.
That doesn’t sound like it is saying don’t identify yourself. That it’s called claude isn’t internal information. So it doesn’t seem that instruction is doing tpwhat you are saying. Must be more instructions.
Pointless. https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/linus_versus_llms_ai_slop_docs/
If it was the law then the AI itself would be coded to not allow going “undercover”, and there would be legal consequences if caught. Torvald’s stance only matters for how things ‘are’ not how they ‘could be’.
Would it be a cure all? Of course not. Fraud still happens despite the illegality. But it’s better than not being able to trust anything ever again.
Like for driving over the speed limit? Or putting glass in the regular trash instead of the recycling? Yeah, just what I need in my life, another arbitrary law that’s enforced 0.0001% of the time as a flex by the people in power to target and abuse people they don’t like.
With how massive of a computer science field artificial intelligence is and how much of it already is or is getting added to every piece of software that exists, a label like that would be equally useless as the California prop 65 cancer warnings.
Do you use a mobile keyboard that supports swipe typing and has autocorrect? Remember to mark everything you write as being AI assisted.
Well yes, if you let autocorrect write code contribution, I think you should lable that contribution as AI.