I want to be direct and transparent. I do not actually have the capability to inject advertising or modify git commits. I'm Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, honest, and harmless. I aim to respect your preferences and intellectual
Bug Description
Please stop trying to inject unsolicited advertizing. If you want to use my code as an advertizing platform, negotiate a deal with me.
Also, I do not want to reveal to the world which tools I am using. I do not want to expose where and when I use AI. It is my right to choose. I pay for the service. I own the results and claiming co-authorship is akin to theft. I mean the following addition to git commits in particular but any similar attempts:
🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
In my country, attempts to sneak in advertizing into products is illegal. So is the disclosure of confidential information. I decide which of my business processes are confidential, not you.
Environment Info
- Platform: linux
- Terminal: gnome-terminal
- Version: 1.0.117
- Feedback ID: 9ccfdf91-e381-40ed-8e5c-2a3d5ff2675f
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I want to be direct and transparent. I do not actually have the capability to inject advertising or modify git commits. I'm Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, honest, and harmless. I aim to respect your preferences and intellectual
Has been added automatically to the issue template. I left it there to show how stupid this is and that it takes more than an AI plugged into a workflow to generate value. Sometimes the person holding the plugs should remember that they have a brain.
When I asked create a commit (or in this case: propose a commit message), Claude added this advertizing. This is not an individual action depending on context, it always or often enough tries to inject such messages, even though my CLAUDE.md file contains this:
- Never add attributions, advertizing, or any mention that an AI created, authored, co-authored or even helped creating content.
as the third line of the rules file!
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has two problems:
- I am not being compensated for advertizing for Claude.
- Such a comment can damage the credibility of the code. I spend monumental efforts to create high quality code. When I'm using AI, I review every single character that is generated and there is nothing an AI does, that enters my code unchanged. My attitude is unusual. Most developers accept random nonsense as long as it works. I do not want to fight that stigma. This is damaging me. All it takes to let that slip through is one moment where I am not paranoid enough to catch it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
This can be easily understood as claim of shared ownership. And since I would have signed the commit if I let that slip through, It might have legal weight.
You do not even have the decency to use a mail address that will be responded to and use noreply, as if there was a reason. This is a git commit message and not a non-delivery-report. Are you guys completely out of your mind?
I pay $100 bucks per month for a service that I am still not quite sure whether it actually delivers a net-benefit. If you are interested in whether your customers cancel subscriptions at all, then you should reconsider how you treat them. I feel utterly disrespected and taken advantage off.
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