Claude Code is steganographically marking requests(thereallo.dev)
2412 points by kirushik 52 days ago | 736 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Anthropic and big AI labs are untrustworthy; this behavior confirms broader pattern of deception
  • Lack of transparent disclosure about client-side behavior is unacceptable regardless of business justification
  • The steganography has a clear legitimate purpose (detecting distillation/abuse) and doesn't harm normal developers
  • Steganography is necessary because explicit telemetry could be trivially stripped by malicious gateways
  • Implementation was technically sloppy; better underhanded techniques exist