[peyton]

Inserting authorship claims is incredibly tacky. It’s today’s “Intel Inside” sticker. I don’t want your stickers on the computer I bought.

“Sent from my iPhone” isn’t an authorship claim.

[AuthAuth]

Sent from my iPhone is worse than intel inside or claude in the commits in my opinion.

There is something so gross about injecting an advertising message into every single communication a user has on their device.

[SequoiaHope]

I recall there was some understanding that it had a legitimate use as well as the obvious marketing, which was to advise the reader that the message may be unexpectedly concise or contain errors because it was sent from a cell phone, something less common before the iPhone came out. BlackBerry phones did this too for the same reasons.

[47282847]

“Sent from my mobile phone” - no need to inject a product name

[richooret]

You misunderstand the purpose of "Sent from my iPhone" - it was a status symbol, it showed that the sender was part of the superior iPhone owning elite. It was trivial to remove, but most didnt "oh, I am too busy too remove it, I guess I'll just leave it and let everybody know I can afford an iPhone".

You are right, it was advertising, but it advertized the user, not Apple.

[poly2it]

That's advertising with extra steps. Apple having created an ingroup and an outgroup is very effective advertising on their side.

[opello]

I always thought this was an implicit request to forgive obvious typos and autocorrect mistakes. Sent from a mobile device (iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Blackberry, Windows Phone, etc.) with a tiny keyboard and in a setting in which proofreading may not be as rigorous as normal.

[robin_reala]

At least “Sent from my iPhone” was a factual claim, unlike this mess.

[Cadwhisker]

“Sent from my iPhone” is a default signature, but you can change the message under Settings -> Apps -> Mail -> Signature (at the bottom of the options page)

[cik]

These are the same thing. Marketing, and the ability to track reach. There's no other reason to do this.

[kelseydh]

On the flip side there are people who believe that LLM-assisted coding changes require attribution in git history.

[jamietanna]

As I've written elsewhere in the thread, having worked at a large Enterprise in collaboration with Legal, if there isn't tracking of what AI contributions you have, it's harder to be protected legally by ie Microsoft's indemnity clause if you're sued

[silverwind]

It's definitely helpful to know whether a PR was AI-assisted or not and the git attribution line is a simple and effective way of communicating that.

I also recommend specifying model name and version so the maintainer knows upfront the level of slop they are dealing with.

[dyauspitr]

What’s the problem with intel inside? That’s perfectly normal.

[reaperducer]

What’s the problem with intel inside? That’s perfectly normal.

I don't want my computer to look like it's racing in NASCAR.

[cardiffspaceman]

If your NASCAR car had a sticker, you’d have ad money from STP/Pennzoil/RainX/whatever.

[pitched]

I would take a sticker for a sponsorship. That could be a good deal. Not for free though!