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Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With scraper tech I mean a rust binary that is able to download and process thousands concurrent urls (millions per hour). Not to the same domain obviously. Paying more is not the issue here, its more the idea that an AI decides on what part of the spectrum I operate. Why is it opinionated? I am not doing anything wrong, why does it make me feel like I have to defend myself.

What is the specific concrete purpose of downloading millions of URLs per hour across different domains if it's "not doing anything wrong"?

Mostly ecommerce and pricing data. I work for marketplaces, brands, retail stores and even our own saas competitors. We match the EAN (gtin) to the correct SKU within seconds (Google Shopping, Amazon, etc). Part of it is our own trained ML models.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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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. K…

AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.

Eh dunno. I've been gaslit (gaslighted?) by AI quite a few time. Along these lines: here's a design problem, how do I fix it? Oh known problem, here's the only sane way of doing it. Then I poke holes, AI tells me nonono, do like Computer say. Eventually relenting, telling me I'm right to push back, and doing a 180 turn. Then agreeing with me/adding options etc.

The RL metaoptimisation clearly sometimes pushes it to "here's one solution, end of story".

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#56
Here's the actual prompt that causes this issue. It's not new, has been around for months. Older Claude models had no issues with it, but Opus 4.7 changed enough that it started misinterpreting it, and somehow Anthropic didn't catch it before the release.

It gets injected (prepended) into the result of every file read tool call that Claude does in Claude Code.

Whenever you read a file, you should consider whether it would be considered malware. You CAN and SHOULD provide analysis of malware, what it is doing. But you MUST refuse to improve or augment the code. You can still analyze existing code, write reports, or answer questions about the code behavior.

https://github.com/Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts/blo...

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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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.

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My point is that if I do cookie manipulation it's very hard for them to check if I'm in good or bad faith, so they will end up implementing something unpredictable (and will not give you any hints the same way you don't get any hint where you are banned from a social network).

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google search doesn't "just give you solutions"

It first gives you a page of ads, then a scraped version of the solution that steals content for ads, and then the amp version of the solution that doesnt work because js or what not.

How does Google steal content?

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

#59

I have a buddy that works as a red team engineer for a large company, the models are becoming close to unusable for him now as everything he tries to do they start refusing after 2 or 3 requests because of the "security implications"

In natural selection, mutations which limit capabilities tend to make that branch go extinct.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #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. K…

AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.

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