[civet_java]

Copying over my comment from elsewhere in this post:

Anthopic choosing to delay their models' invevitable distillation by competitors is their prerogative.

That they choose to implement it by fingerprinting my access patterns without first disclosing is where they shit the bed. It isn't "sneaky" it's straight up sneaky (and dishonest and unscrupulous while we're at it). That this particular instance is harmless doesn't give me much comfort. Who's to say they aren't harvesting PII?

That their actions make sense for their business isn't any reason for people to accept their deceitful, customer-hostile decisions.

[Melatonic]

Does their user agreement say they won't be harvesting PII?

[soraminazuki]

Are you implying that Anthropic lawyers wrote the user agreement to protect users out of the goodness of their hearts? That's how they receive their big fat paychecks? Very funny.

We all know user agreements exist to strip users of their rights and to absolve companies of wrongdoing. We know that corporate apologists here are also well aware of this fact. When user agreements explicitly grant companies the right to screw over users, apologists are quick to make excuses about how it's all standard operating procedure and accuse people of being uncharitable for doing a plain reading of the text [1]. Yet when people are actually screwed over by companies, those very same people blame users for accepting the user agreement. It's a bad faith system.

User agreements are nothing more than power plays by exploitative companies.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953501

[IshKebab]

> by fingerprinting my access patterns

It's based on whether your timezone is in China and your hostname matches a blacklist. Literally 2 bits of information. Not much of a fingerprint.

[nozzlegear]

That's what it's based on right now, anyway. What other bits of info will they add as the Chinese work around this spyware?