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Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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What Claude Code did is absolutely mindboggling tho, if Chinese harness did that probably POTUS would lose sleep.

It seemed pretty mild compared to what's collected by modern websites and apps, though? How many don't know your Timezone?

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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not to mention they are kind of capable of executing code and susceptible to injections which also amounts to being practically backdoors if youre not super careful about how u use the tooling

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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> Translation: Alibaba will continue distillation attacks using accounts that aren't directly attributable to it's own corporate infrastructure.

What's a "distillation attack"? How is it different from simply distillation?

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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> Translation: Alibaba will continue distillation attacks using accounts that aren't directly attributable to it's own corporate infrastructure. What's a "distillation attack"? How is it different from simply distillation?

The target doesn't want to be distilled.

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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post #12

What Claude Code did is absolutely mindboggling tho, if Chinese harness did that probably POTUS would lose sleep.

Maybe if they didn’t farm all the data from Claude to train their own trash models. Anthropic wouldn’t feel the need to do it.

Who is "they", and which Chinese models are trash?

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as they're paying for the tokens, there's no attack . Otherwise you have to call training on copyrighted material theft.

They are not paying for most tokens. The actual users in China do. All they need is the logs.

Anthropic still gets paid.

Unlike the vast majority of people Anthropic stole from.

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as they're paying for the tokens, there's no attack . Otherwise you have to call training on copyrighted material theft.

They are not paying for most tokens. The actual users in China do. All they need is the logs.

In that case it's already bought and paid for by the users, is it not?

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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I think we should start calling it "distillation terrorism" just to make it sound even more absurd.

It's pure model murder, and if you call it anything else, you're an anti-American communist.

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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I got curious and asked my Chinese friends, and they gave me a Reddit link[1]. It looks like it's about location data collection, and they suggested that might be the reason for the issue.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ujila1/anthropic...

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