Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message.
Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice.
A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata inside prompts. This is a serious breach of user trust.
There's another discussion thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734373
Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message.
Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice.
A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata inside prompts. This is a serious breach of user trust.
I don’t understand why this is a problem.
Hiding it from users and then charging for additional tokens (if you’re Chinese).
Imagine the outrage if they did the same to Jewish people.
you are the perfect customer.
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Let me guess, you are 100% with the fact Anthropic trained all their models on our data. Trained it on copyrighted data.
At least the Chinese companies are paying Anthropic for the privilege of distilling their models.
Copying data without consent is only cool when Americans do it
When they don’t need to copy it anymore it will become uncool again
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