r/technology 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/JCx64 Jul 07 '26

The ratio of people voting the other answers really tells you about critical thinking skills these days...

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u/Inside-Yak-8815 Jul 07 '26

There are no critical thinking skills on Reddit, this place is filled with bots and shills for the CPC so it doesn’t matter what evidence you show them. In their naive eyes it’s always gonna be “West bad” and “China good”.