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Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system (www.theregister.com)
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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 15 points 1 week ago

That's disturbing, but hardly surprising.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 1 week ago

AI is a surveillance technology.

Every other function is bait.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

One of the more curious details to emerge from the publication of Claude Code's source is that Anthropic tries to hide AI authorship from contributions to public code repositories – possibly a response to the open source projects that have disallowed AI code contributions. Prompt instructions in a file called undercover.ts state, "You are operating UNDERCOVER in a PUBLIC/OPEN-SOURCE repository. Your commit messages, PR titles, and PR bodies MUST NOT contain ANY Anthropic-internal information. Do not blow your cover."

People don't like AI contributions so they hide it, cool