Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

Post by chadgpt3 » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #54

ahmedehab_01 wrote: post #41

Frankly, I don't see this as the concerning behaviour the article describes. It is fine to try to protect against distillation through a technique like this. This will also allow them to, instead of blocking the distillation agents, respond with a poorer result/model, hindering the progress of distillation, momentarily at least. I would guess that's their first line of defense; they should have more techniques to ide…

> This will also allow them to, instead of blocking the distillation agents, respond with a poorer result/model, i.e. this will allow them to literally commit fraud against paying customers

Post by zahlman » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #38

axutio wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you also say that "someone who wants to use an IDE / LSP features to code and not give credit to the IDE / LSP is the worst kind of person"? If not, what is the difference between the two for you?

one wrote code while the other is used by meatbags to write code. why is this example always marched out like it means something?

Post by a_c » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

Post by charcircuit » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

_alternator_ wrote: post #20

LPisGood wrote: post #3

This is very interesting. Combating resellers and distillation seems like a very difficult problem indeed. Interesting to me is that these techniques mentioned in the article are just like anti-observation techniques used by some of the more sophisticated malware out there, however defeating them is pretty trivial.

Yes, defeating this is relatively easy, particularly for sophisticated actors. But it's hard to always defeat all of the tricks. Sort of like how it's expensive and hard and uncertain to defeat all of the tricks when forging money. Here's an example. Say you have your team use patched binaries. Then CC updates and requires a new patched binary with new tricks. You now have to have a team ready to analyze the binary a…

Post by wolttam » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

tonmoy wrote: post #43

wolttam wrote: post #36

I used Claude Code for a month because my boss gifted me a sub and wanted me to try it. I used that month to complete a work project and then beef up my personal harness so I'd never have to deal with Anthropic (and these sorts of shenanigans) again.

What models are you using? Aren’t you still dealing with some provider even if you are not using their binary