Claude vs Claude (lemmus.org)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
 

Link to post: https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/117069670583842298

Short version: Two seperate "vibe-coders" used Claude to create an app--which turned out identical. And then the coders went after each other.

TranscriptNick Lockwood: Holy shit, so the "Claude plagiarised an app" story is actually "Claude produced the same app twice when prompted to do so by two separate developers" ๐Ÿ˜…

Colin Cornaby

infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117066183348062085

I looked at the replies to this post, did some more digging, and found the actual story is even weirder.

BOTH projects were generated using Claude. So you have two people - both generating the same app from the same training data - having a public throw down over who copied who. Kind of embarrassing.

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[โ€“] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

From the viber's blog: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

A developer who created another web app called DarkHours.app replied to my comment on Bluesky yesterday to show me how similar the project was to his, including the name.

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