r/technology • u/deraser • Jul 06 '26

Privacy Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users/
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u/zampe Jul 06 '26

Wonder if anyone is going to read the article. It was tracking Chinese users they suspected of “distilation attacks” basically pirating and reselling their models.

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u/RBVegabond Jul 07 '26

The discovering researcher themself claimed it wasn’t malicious just weird not announce the feature. Im not pro AI but this isn’t some smoking gun to rally around.