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  • https://github.com/google/artemis/commit/371aa6df56880643da5...

    They're trying to cover it up now

    by harshavamsi
  • I do not believe in IP.

    Credit should be assigned tho.

    by mam2
  • Is it even possible to steal this code? How much of it is uncopyrightable LLM output?
    by camgunz
  • The MO is so recognizable so I digged around.

    This maintainer <https://github.com/somew1nd> is shady as hell.

    It looks like the profile is a recent Chinese graduate, who have been working on a "challenge cup" <https://www.tiaozhanbei.net> robot project not very long ago.

    Personally, I know that lot to appropriate stuff for themselves without blinking an eye. Believe me when I say I know.

    Also, the OP seem to have been heavily downvoted, which I believe have been fudged.

    Reporting this twit to his manager may be the right way to go.

    by gravifer
  • Here's the force pushed pyproject.toml with the new author if anyone cares:

    https://github.com/google/artemis/compare/14e02c4c27bc5b3c0d...

        + authors = [
    +     { name = "somew1nd", email = "[REDACTED]@outlook.com" },
    + ]
    Seems legit
    by RossBencina
  • Regardless of whether or not Google is liable, what would be interesting to me is how this happened, the role(s) at Google that were involved, when each knew of the problem, and what each did.

    (I'm interested in what this says about current culture.)

    by neilv
  • Looks like the GitHub repo added some minimal attribution a few days ago: https://github.com/google/artemis/commit/371aa6df56880643da5...

    They've also closed the reporting issue, and pro-actively locked it without any kind of explanation or apology: https://github.com/google/artemis/issues/40#issuecomment-568...

    That they didn't even bother to apologise or explain their actions seems pretty shitty. :(

    by justinclift
  • > The author history was harder to understand. An earlier package file listed Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, and Nicolas Dehandschoewercker. The version that replaced it removed all three names and substituted another author. The only change to the files was the author list. GitHub’s activity record shows that the replacement happened through a force push in August, before our investigation this September.

    Wow, this looks pretty damning. I can't imagine Google seeing this as worth the risks. Is an innocent explanation possible here?

    by dataflow

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