Link to post: https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/117069670583842298
Short version: Two seperate “vibe-coders” used Claude to create an app–which turned out identical. And then the coders went after each other.
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Nick Lockwood: Holy shit, so the “Claude plagiarised an app” story is actually “Claude produced the same app twice when prompted to do so by two separate developers” 😅
Colin Cornaby
infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117066183348062085
I looked at the replies to this post, did some more digging, and found the actual story is even weirder.
BOTH projects were generated using Claude. So you have two people - both generating the same app from the same training data - having a public throw down over who copied who. Kind of embarrassing.
I’m thoroughly an adult (somehow?) but when I was at school, they mostly taught us the absolute basics over and over and anyone who hadn’t picked something up when they were five probably wouldn’t by the time they left school. It probably doesn’t help that the kind of people interested enough in computers to learn to use them properly and well enough to explain to children could also get a much more lucrative job doing something with computers than teaching children.