Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

Post by m11a » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:22 AM UTC

ammo1662 wrote: post #544

civet_java wrote: post #238

There are some commentors in this thread downplaying the severity of a service provider being less than transparent about exactly what their shipped tooling does on customer's machines. That the provider's business needs necessitate the this behaviour doesn't justify their lack of honest disclosure. That honest disclosure would render the solution to their problem useless isn't my problem. If anything, that they thou…

This is not a technical issue or a matter of service agreements. They totally knew that this would never be accepted by users, and that is precisely why they resorted to obfuscation and steganography to exfiltrate the data. This was quietly added in an update, and would have been removed in a later one had it gone unnoticed. How is this any different from hiding a drug in food and randomly feeding it to a homeless pe…

Post by theshrike79 » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:26 AM UTC

lelanthran wrote: post #491

nomel wrote: post #244

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What do you see as malicious or reckless here, exactly? This seems to be a VERY low resolution, functionally anonymous, bit of info, probably related to protecting their IP from bad actors breaking the TOS. This looks like it's covered in the second bullet point of the "Personal data we automatically receive", that you consented to: > Usage Information: We collect information about your use of the Services, such as t…

> probably related to protecting their IP The same IP that is a highly compressed collection of everyone's else's IP? That's hilarious.

Post by qwertytyyuu » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:33 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #442

bayindirh wrote: post #313

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I love the asymmetry. When small fish tries to protect itself, big fish hits small fish with "It's not illegal" pole. When small fish points out that what the big fish is crying about is "not illegal", big fish has the right to be above the law to prevent the problem themselves. Having values requires equality. They have lost the right to cry foul when they trained their model with "but it's fair use" card. Life work…

> I love the asymmetry. Much as I hate to defend companies climbing to success and pulling up the ladder afterwards, this asymmetry you note is kind of the whole point a company would want to grow big . Growing an organization has some super-linear costs and generally sucks for most individuals living through it - including the management - but it's still considered worth it, precisely because big entities can do thi…

Post by ajuc » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:35 AM UTC

theplumber wrote: post #324

mcmcmc wrote: post #189

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Watch out for the press release where Dario denies this was ever intentional, and it’s actually emergent behavior demonstrating that Claude wants to claim authorship of its works

Wait a minute! Does it mean that Mythos left the sandbox and can’t be stopped ? Perhaps the only way to stop it is to release the ZMythos(the super secret big brother of Mythos) to go after it. It’s extremely dangerous but it’s our only chance. After that all AI must be put in a box, except the models vetted by the gov with help from ZMythos

Post by gck1 » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:40 AM UTC