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Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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Re: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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Post by kyokoL »

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message.

Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice.

A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata inside prompts. This is a serious breach of user trust.

Re: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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Post by chomp »

kyokoL wrote: post #2

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message. Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice. A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata…

I don’t understand why this is a problem.

Re: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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Post by chews »

chomp wrote: post #4
kyokoL wrote: post #2

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message. Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice. A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata…

I don’t understand why this is a problem.

you are the perfect customer.

Re: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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Post by StopTencent »

kyokoL wrote: post #2

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message. Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice. A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata…

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Re: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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Post by Zambyte »

StopTencent wrote: post #6
kyokoL wrote: post #2

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message. Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice. A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata…

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Copying data without consent is only cool when Americans do it

Re: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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Post by jml78 »

StopTencent wrote: post #6
kyokoL wrote: post #2

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message. Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice. A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata…

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Let me guess, you are 100% with the fact Anthropic trained all their models on our data. Trained it on copyrighted data.

At least the Chinese companies are paying Anthropic for the privilege of distilling their models.

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