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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 iAMkenough »

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.

Hiding it from users and then charging for additional tokens (if you’re Chinese).

Imagine the outrage if they did the same to Jewish people.

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

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Post by cyanydeez »

iAMkenough wrote: post #11
chomp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t understand why this is a problem.

Hiding it from users and then charging for additional tokens (if you’re Chinese). Imagine the outrage if they did the same to Jewish people.

or to US dissidents, since theyre being targeted by the most fascist American regime in centuries.

also, its the subterfuge that makes explicitly dangerous

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

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Post by Nevermark »

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.

> This is a serious breach of user trust.

>> I don’t understand why this is a problem.

> This is a serious breach of user trust.

The problem with companies people can't trust, is unless they have a long track record of disclosing who shouldn't trust them before violations, they are companies nobody can trust.

Anthropic also has a habit of making major changes, without notifying anyone, then when they are caught apologizing and making that particular thing more clear. Then doing it again.

For a company that emphasizes the importance of alignment, they seem to be habitually ethically incompetent regarding "smaller" things.

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

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Post by dietr1ch »

iAMkenough wrote: post #11
chomp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t understand why this is a problem.

Hiding it from users and then charging for additional tokens (if you’re Chinese). Imagine the outrage if they did the same to Jewish people.

That would be even more antisemitic than opposing a genocide
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