Does anyone know if this happens in the Claude desktop app?
Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
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Re: Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
#672You can't trust any of the big AI labs as far as you can throw them, and most definitely not Anthropic. They may have a good model, but they've shown time and time again that they're not trustworthy. The CEO has recently started taking a stance against local AI. That must tell you something: local AI is the future. If you want to preserve privacy and be ready for the rug pull, you need to run things locally. Unfortun…
What do you mean “unfortunately”? What’s the hate for China I don’t understand
> What’s the hate for China I don’t understand
country that does not allow internet is being hated on the internet
Re: Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
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Re: Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
#674There 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…
They have vested interests in continuing the practice which is why they are so vocal about it. It’s about money.
You will own nothing and be happy.
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#675Re: Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
#676At some stage people will realise that with AI companies like Anthropic the product is data. The moat you can build in the AI era is having data that nobody else has and using internal (private use) LLMs and not leaking out your data for shady companies who are going to rip you off the first chance they get.
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#678Earlier quoted context omitted.
> foreign labs Apparently not just foreign labs. It looks like xAI distilled Anthropic models to train grok. https://opentools.ai/news/xai-trained-coding-models-claude-o...
That's less of a worry though since xAI is patently incompetent.
Except when it comes to image models. Imagine is extremely good and extremely cheap. I've been using it to generate book covers for ebooks (old novel short stories that never had a cover, for example) and it's phenomenal. Each cover is about 6 cents
Re: Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
#679This causes me to be concerned it is just the tip of the iceberg for all 'sensitive'/gov adjacent/'nefarious intent' adjacent codebase, if it's here, it's in other places. Which places, and how much?
Re: Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
#680Codex CLI is FOSS, unlike Claude Code, so Codex is less likely to do things like that, and it's one more reason to avoid Claude Code and Claude in general. Hopefully, many eyes will be looking into Codex for malicious things like that.
Genuine question though, why would I care about this if I'm paying for a subscription and adhering to TOS. I'm very skeptical about their privacy policy, business practices, and so on, but am curious what the negative about this is. Seems like it would work to my favour as a customer pushing back any date of the cutting of subsidies. That said, these fraudulent proxies are helping Chinese labs keep up, which might be…
Why care about privacy if your not doing anything wrong??
Not everyone agrees that what you are doing is benign.