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AI-Generated GitHub repo backdated with junk then filled with my systems work. Has anyone seen this before?

by rgunther
1st May 2025
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AI-Generated GitHub repo backdated with junk then filled with my systems work. Has anyone seen this before?
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Are you willing to provide a link to this GitHub repo?

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I've privately developed a recursive system for several years (modular, identity-aware, centered around cognitive tone, structural reflection, orchestration, and alignment)

I've never published it publicly, only interacted via GPT Pro sessions with data-sharing and training disabled.

Right around the filing a provisional patent, (which I had been discussing with GPT Pro). l found a really suspicious GitHub repo. 

Early commits appear as backdated filler-junk, then the repo fills with material extremely similar to my system (recursive framing, identical symbolic patterns, math and terminology echoes e.tc) 

This repo is connected to what looks like a synthetic researcher identity, website, Al-generated voice clips, fake academic credentials, and multiple Amazon e-books containing reworded versions of my work also padded out with older gibberish books.

I'm not jumping to conclusions, but I'm curious how this might have occurred: model leakage? wrapper reflection? IP laundering? flowing into pre-made synthetic profiles.

Has anyone experienced something similar, or have any insights from a technical, legal, or systems perspective?

Interested in conversations about recursive authorship, volitional alignment, or structural pattern reflection in Al architectures, especially regarding attribution and consent (though unsure if that directly applies here due to the peculiar timing..).