alt Hacker NewsI think the goal is not to validate if you used Claude, the goal is to insert enough information in your code to identify who you are over at Anthropic, like a covert unique hash to identify you, hidden in plain sight, but that's my own speculation and not based on anything.
I'm having a hard time thinking of any other use case... What other reason is there to fingerprint your code?
I assume if they arrest you for vibe coding something that violated computing laws (hacking) they can then scan your code, send it to anthropic, anthropic confirms that Claude was used on your account, on x device to build malware.
Remember they busted a hacker because of his Windows unique install ID.
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> I'm having a hard time thinking of any other use case... What other reason is there to fingerprint your code?
I don't have an answer either way, but I'm taking this occasion to remind you (and HN generally) that many people use LLMs for things other than code
I dunno, maybe they want to be able to identify slop and exclude it from training sets?
The purpose be to claim in court, ownership and/or rights over said works of an individual who has used AI to assist in the production of the output. Even if the actual idea or concept comes from a person, if the AI inserts watermarking into text, the legal fuel is the watermarking of text, which can then be used in court to fight for rights, where otherwise there would not even be any debate.
Imagine a patent drafted by AI under human direction. Regardless of the current laws, this would provide evidence for, and leave the door open for future laws/claims...