>> I don’t understand why this is a problem.

> This is a serious breach of user trust.

The problem with companies people can't trust, is unless they have a long track record of disclosing who shouldn't trust them before violations, they are companies nobody can trust.

Anthropic also has a habit of making major changes, without notifying anyone, then when they are caught apologizing and making that particular thing more clear. Then doing it again.

For a company that emphasizes the importance of alignment, they seem to be habitually ethically incompetent regarding "smaller" things.

Imagine the outrage if they did the same to Jewish people.