- Repo seems to be gone? User action or GitHub action?
Regardless, for visibility as to maybe-why this happened, here are screenshots of the user editing comments to insult/make them say something they never did;
https://imgur.com/a/LsvBXY1
https://web.archive.org/web/20251130091635/https://github.co...
The tool itself claims "Zero AI" (https://www.zigbook.net/) yet is very obviously A-Lot-AI.
by gnarlouse
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- Had a conversation with the Zigbook maintainer. It’s either a young kid or somebody that has some serious growing up to do. Just generally weird behavior.
by lillecarl
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- https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/pull/45#issuecomment-3592... Would this be grounds to report zigbook to GitHub maybe? This is wild
- Plagiarism is a moral wrong.
But copyright infringement is a legal wrong (a civil liability).
Is what they're doing infringing on a copyrighted work? Or does it fail to uphold license terms? Many open source licenses have some amount of attribution as a requirement, so that'd be something to consider.
by kachapopopow
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- I just can't get over how ridicioulus the "no ai" statement is.
I really love the part where llm.txt has the same notice, something humans will never read, or the fact that llm.txt exists considering that there is distaste for AI in every part of this llm generated book.
- @Zigtools:
Thank you for your educative post, letting the community know.
Don't let it to drag you down in any way. This is emotionally draining and takes away motivation, but keep going.
- I remember reading the original zig book post and how weird it smelt. Even though it’s LLM written there’s more than a trivial amount of effort put into it. What could anyone possibly have to gain by doing this?
- I could see LLMs copying code as innocent mistake, but identical sha256sum on wasm files...jikes
- The only stupid thing here is that the zigtools playground is mit licensed, so all zigbook had to do was acknowledging original copyright.
- original submission dicussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947810
by robertwpearce
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- I decided to start learning Zig this past week, and typing in "zig book" to a search engine led me to that project. After a handful of pages, I had no clue what was going on and couldn't follow it (that said, I am new).
I quickly found https://ziglang.org/learn/, and the guide is great. For ziglings, make sure you're on the latest dev build (as it says in the README)! (Edit: or get the tagged release for the version you have!)
- Playground wise, is Zigs wasm compiler able to compile out simd wasm in the browser? I'm trying to find the best languages that can. So far it's just assemblyscript and c/c++ and their compilers are big.
by PaulRobinson
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- Disappointing.
When zigbook first appeared here, I took a cursory scan, and it looked pretty solid and a useful resource. Seems it duped me and got me good. I was even defending the use of AI a little - although the claim needed to go.
Seems they just were just trying to do over a nascent community that I'm interested in seeing growing and wasn't a member of yet.
Good riddance, then.
by conartist6
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- Our rules are so easy to follow but I'm not sad that the the consequences for breaking them are serious, in terms of your social reputation at least
- Gets worse: https://github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org/issues/6395
by darshanime
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- since zig is famously decentralized, i don't think there is a way to effectively combat bad actors like these? there is no "official zig org" that can disown them
by do_not_redeem
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- I wonder what tools the Zig team has to deal with trolls like this.
Is the zig name or logo trademarked? What about the mascot he's using as his github picture?
They're violating the terms of the MIT license as mentioned in the article, so maybe Zigtools has legal standing.
As for lying about no AI, being an asshole isn't illegal, so no angle there.
Any other ideas I missed?
- I’m doing AoC on Zig this year. Zigtools will be my reference. Cheers!
- There should be something of an OFAC Sanction List for SWE for people who blatantly transgress moral and ethical lines.
by dangoodmanUT
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- Wtf is happening in the zig world this week
by flykespice
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- This is just a vibe coder who tried spin his business onto a growing language. They don't care about their product (code) quality as long as it sells.
- And now it’s made private.
by koakuma-chan
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- Whenever I hear anything about Zig it seems to be drama. Very bizarre, will avoid.
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