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I'm curious what people are sending to Claude that is so secret. Claude knows about my interior decorating, questions about light bulbs, curiosity about what the Galactic Empire was even trying to do, unpacking SCOTUS decisions, shoe trees, Fed inflation history, etc.

What part of my brain is contained here? Sure, the conversations have back and forth (some have dozens of exchanges), but, like, that's not the secret to me. I don't think it can replicate me, and even if it could… okay?

Are you worried they're going to target ads? That the government will steal something? What?

Claude Code has information about my home server, but google or DDG would also have the broad strokes (torrents). I don't know. Maybe others are working on more sensitive things at home.

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>> what people are sending to Claude that is so secret

Its the same point used against privacy. What's so secret you are doing that you need privacy. I think in the end, its about privacy and not trusting these model companies with your data. Facebook manipulated people behaviors with all the data they had, no reason AI companies wont someday decide to do that same, and they have far more intimate knowledge.

When it comes to coding, I also don't like the idea of them taking my money and potentially at same time potentially using as dataset generator.

> I'm curious what people are sending to Claude that is so secret.

When Claude is used in a professional setting, any or all of:

  Proprietary intellectual property (a.k.a. system code)
  PII[0] of the employee, customers, or both
  HIPAA[1] data known to a system
  Internal communications not meant to be publicized
  Sensitive data, such as SSH keys and the like

Pretty much anything on a machine which uses Anthropic/OpenAI native tools is a candidate to be compromised really.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...

Anthropic will sign BAAs. They are HIPAA compliant (we used them.)

I understand people’s hesitation but the business agreements are different. The business risks of misusing HIPAA data is not only being banned from a massive enterprise market (last I checked, there were about 1.2m jobs related to claims billing and adjudication) and significant legal repercussions.

Other companies like AWS also handle HIPAA data. Are we afraid they’re stealing it? I don’t believe it, nor that Anthropic is training on HIPAA data.

OpenAI… I will never trust them.

Anthropic's goal is to commoditize intelligence. People who use their brains / intelligence for competitive advantage might not want to contribute training data for that goal.

> Anthropic's goal is to commoditize intelligence.

And Google's original goal was to organize the world's information.

How did that turn out?

Are you willing to bet that your lack of imagination for exploitation is precisely that of several multibillion dollar companies?

I'm curious what people are sending to Claude that is so secret.

The proof to the Navier-Stokes problem.

I'm pretty sure they were sending a prompt for Claude to _find_ the Navier-Stokes proof, using ideas that have been publicly shared before online, but not necessarily used for the problem.

But are you pretty sure or actually sure?

They obviously did not send the proof to Claude.

Tristan Buckmaster found out the hard way.

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