If there’s no difference in quality why obfuscate it? Why hide something that you think is a valuable tool if your code can speak for

The timeline was that he started adding attribution indicating the use of AI.

Then the anti-AI drones started bombarding the Github, Discord and forums with harassment. His recent statements and removal of attribution are entirely addressed at and because of the anti-AI people harassing the project staff.

He’s not removing it and saying ‘fuck you’ to the users. He’s tired of being harassed by third parties who are not involved with the project in any way and so he removed the source of the harassment.