It wasn't the AI

It wasn't the AI

It's all a bit mysterious though because the blog carefully avoids any reference to the fork, avoiding even its name.

I think it's an attempt to deny the fork and its human creator any publicity. They're worried that mentioning it by name would get people interested in it and might give the human publicity as someone who's an expert at using LLMs to copy FOSS. That seems like a totally legitimate concern, but it would have been smart to include a sentence or two explaining why they aren't naming and shaming. A simple "Note: we have avoided naming the software or the developer behind it to avoid giving them publicity" would have helped.