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ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history

262 points · 14 comments · cdnsteve

Aldipower · 1789731678 · focus · HN ↗
That the article cannot distinguish between the git history 'git log' and the git repository, which is meant here, tells a lot.
Claude Fable uploads my git history (git log) every day to the Anthropic servers!
1. bbor · 1789735348 · focus · HN ↗
  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.
  1. [deleted] · 1789736854 · focus · HN ↗
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  2. progval · 1789745081 · focus · HN ↗
    > No one has 300MB of commit messages.
    Commit messages in <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git" rel="nofollow">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... sum to 900MB.
    Also, this commit message alone: <a href="https://gitlab.com/old-game/sb-b/nanobox.io/nanobox-pkgsrc-lite/-/commit/857d286123acf87ae4a08528a3eef4ce2fbf8db2" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/old-game/sb-b/nanobox.io/nanobox-pkgsrc-l... weighs 100.5MB (they squashed years of history as a single commit and piped "git log" to the commit message).
    bbor · 1789748327 · focus · HN ↗
    lol okay you got me. Linux itself might!
2. vikramkr · 1789737365 · focus · HN ↗
  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.
3. TuxSH · 1789740343 · focus · HN ↗
  Does it do so while using an asymmetric key encryption key?
  1. eli · 1789744173 · focus · HN ↗
    Kind of? It uses SSL

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