Indeed. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694

I made it about two paragraphs in the paraphase before I hit this sentence and realized

> The detail that turned a suspicious directory into a story: the encryption key.

So strange that this is still up 5 hours later… dang, I am yet again begging you to stop trying to roll your own forum ethos. It’s okay. You’re safe now. We can modernize without losing the magic. I know I know, shh, it’s okay, don’t worry, just flip the markdown and automod switches I know you have…

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It's funny because the author of the article is obviously Claude but most Claude models would definitely know the difference. Some sort of free tier model being used to summarize some other blog that's also ai translated originally it seems.

Does it do so while using an asymmetric key encryption key?

This is bad-faith AI slop rephrasing the original article, but regardless: the extent of the issue is far, far, far beyond the metadata you're discussing. No one has 300MB of commit messages.