Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors
ai and ml
Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system
Anthropic says that it plans to remove hidden codes it added to Claude Code several months ago to catch other AI companies that are trying to steal from its models.
Thariq Shihipar, an engineer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code team, said on Tuesday that a fix should appear on July 1.
"This is an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation," Shihipar explained, using the industry term for copying AI models through repeated queries. "The team has landed stronger mitigations since then and we’ve actually been meaning to take this down for a while."
He said that the pull request to remove the code has been merged and should appear in Wednesday's Claude Code release.
The experiment, as described...
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