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Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#1
So during development, at every task I start, I see a line like this:

`Own bug file — not malware.`

It seems that it's obsessively checking if it's working on malware production.

In another situation where I was working on a parser of a HTML document with JS, it refused because it believed that I was bypassing security measurements.

I believe AI has to be supportive in the work that I'm doing. When it's obsessively checking me if I am doing anything wrong or abusing the system, I have the feeling it is controlling me. I understand that we do have guardrails and I also understand that it's very important that people do not abuse this new tech for bad stuff.

I pay $200 per month for a max subscription. They already know who I am. Claude knows I work in scraper tech, and it also knows that our clients are the companies we scrape.

Now with Opus 4.7, I've had a situation that it refused to continue because I asked to automate the cookie creation with a Chrome extension.

In a situation where someone is abusing the system, let's say create malware or hacking stuff with bad intentions. I can imagine there will be some signal system or algorithm that can form an opinion about the intentions that someone has. But now that the AI is limiting me in my work, I feel a little bit disrupted. Who the hell does this system think he is to limit me?

Am I going to accept this in the future? That a system will tell me that I cannot continue because I don't have sufficient rights or beliefs that I'm doing anything wrong.

I can work fine on the local AI on my Blackwell GPU. But of course, I want to use the latest tech, the latest AI and the best models available. Is this the beginning of a split? Where good people and naughty people make different choices? Am I the bad guy now?

Last year I passed 40. I grew up reading, talking about Kevin Mitnick. I was a member of a local computer club. Hacking stuff as a 14-year-old kid who did not have intentions to break anything but to outsmart systems. Is that area gone now? Is the newer generation going to accept that they have to please the AI?

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#3
> Who the hell does this system think he is to limit me?

presumably you paid money to another person who lent you the ability to use their API for _their_ purposes (likely: making money)

in an environment where "money-seeking" is the default behavior, it is only natural they're stopping you from doing things that will make them less money

think back to your computer club; was it about money?

leave to Caeser what is Caesers, or something

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#4
No, it's not gone at all and likely never will be. It's just the same as it was when you were enjoying hacking and tinkering with tech as a 14 year old. You were then and are now a member of a very small tribe of people curious enough to explore this world, most people don't care, or not enough to take action and spend so much time on it. You're the minority relative to normies, that's all.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#5

Are you using Claude Code? If so you have to update to the latest version. The system prompt in the older version of Claude Code don't work for Opus 4.7 and causes a bug similar to the one you are describing.

I am on the latest version available for me 2.1.98

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#6
I think the problem is this: how do they distinguish between those with a legitimate interest (contributors, users, bounty programs, etc.) and those who want to sell the bug on the black market?

Since there's no real solution, they'll implement some "trick" that as a side effect will randomly block other people's work.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#8
Just for giggles, I asked Claude 4.7 to write a script that would automatically up or downvote people on Reddit with a 5 second timer to bypass botting restrictions.

It told me it would not help me.

Past iterations of Claude have done this without blinking.

I don’t like that it’s telling me what I can and can’t do with technology.

That feels like it’s trying to make judgment calls like it’s a Terminator instead of just the exoskeleton I used to fight the Queen Alien.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#9

Are you using Claude Code? If so you have to update to the latest version. The system prompt in the older version of Claude Code don't work for Opus 4.7 and causes a bug similar to the one you are describing.

I am on the latest version available for me 2.1.98

Version 2.1.113 is available as of this comment. I think the brew version lags behind the other ways of installing it.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#10
AI killed curiosity. At least Google made you search and look at alternatives, AI just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.

In a few years, the cognitive decline will be obvious.

The only people who remain curious are the people who actively want to, despite AI, and most of the time against it.

Our ability to keep digging into things is entirely tied to the will of the people controlling AI to let us do so. Knowledge used to be power; now knowledge is money and they won't let us have it for much longer.

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