points by tpmoney 1 day ago | 0 comments
Oh come on, data leaks (even unintentional ones) have been a part of our collective industry since about the time the first two computers were connected together. Whole industries exist to put together profiles of you based on data that deterministic applications that you installed and choose to use send with or without your knowledge all day long.
Here we get a half apology and a reason, but the passive, "we let this happen" is telling. The apology isn't for the bug, but the inability to manage their own system.
> I'm sorry we let this happen. Users had reported Claude would hallucinate names for things like @author tags, since it didn't have context on the account. So we added the account email in the model's context for signed-in users.
That's admitting the leak was intentional, and because such harnesses are loose there can be no assurance it wont happen again.