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That’s Apples to Oranges. Me saying “Co-authored by Joe Smith” gives the human, Joe Smith, possible exposure and definite credit. “Co-authored by Copilot” give
by cautiouscat 5mo ago
That’s Apples to Oranges. Me saying “Co-authored by Joe Smith” gives the human, Joe Smith, possible exposure and definite credit.
“Co-authored by Copilot” gives a multi billion dollar corp free advertising. I don’t care about them. I do care about Joe though.
- neilv 5mo agoPositive credit is not the only purpose of attribution. There's also the named authors not taking credit for something they didn't fully do, regardless of whether the credit goes to someone else. There's also traceability, if the authors/provenance needs to be considered because of some kind of problem or potential problem -- technical, legal, security, or otherwise.
- bigyabai 5mo ago> There's also the named authors not taking credit for something they didn't fully do Advertising in git commits is not ever going to substantially discredit these people or hold them accountable.
- smeej 5mo agoYour caring about the entity cited doesn't actually change the nature of the citation. Your saying "Co-authored by Copilot" does the same thing--gives Copilot possible exposure and definite credit--even if it doesn't need it and you don't care about it.
- dylan604 5mo agoKnowing it was Copilot vs Claude vs ChatGPT makes a difference just like knowing it was Joe Smith vs John Doe
- bigyabai 5mo agoJust like how you know that Brawndo™ is the different, better version of the pedestrian "water" that everyone drinks. How could it possibly be product placement? It's got electrolytes!
- groby_b 5mo agoIt really doesn't. Same as we don't say "written with vi" or "written by Emacs", even if it is intuitively clear one of the two is better.
- zuzululu 5mo agoI don't know why dylan604 is trying to die on this hill but thats the point, you can't tell apart people using different tools, everybody has their own preferences. Case in point, I have no way to know if dylan604 is even a real human at this point.