FEATUREDAI HOT (Curated Pool)· aihot-apiZH02:39 · 09·12
→Minitap says Google Artemis used its open-source mobile-use code without credit
Minitap found its mobile-use code inside Google's newly released Artemis repo. Android device connection code, the Hopper agent's instructions, and a WhatsApp example with Alice/Bob/Charlie were copied verbatim. An earlier pyproject.toml listed the three Minitap authors by name; a force push later replaced them with someone else. Minitap says it has contacted Google. The post does not say whether Google has responded.
#Minitap#Google#Nicolas Dehandschoewercker
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Minitap says Google's Artemis repo copied its mobile-use code verbatim—same WhatsApp example, same agent name, and Minitap authors briefly appeared in early commits.
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The evidence here is specific enough to take seriously. Minitap links to side-by-side comparisons: the Android device connection code, the Hopper agent's instructions, and a WhatsApp example where Alice, Bob, and Charlie send New Year messages—all copied verbatim. The repo's early pyproject.toml listed the three Minitap authors by name; a force push later replaced them with someone else.
Minitap says it contacted Google, but the post doesn't say whether Google has responded. This is one side of the story, so I'd wait for Google's version before drawing hard conclusions. But the uncomfortable part isn't legal—mobile-use is open source, so using the code isn't the issue. It's that Google, of all orgs, handled attribution this sloppily. They didn't even rename the agent from Hopper. That doesn't read like an oversight; it reads like they didn't think anyone would notice.
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