Private window is called out in the article as creating a second entity

Intent is fundamental to all criminal cases

The intent of auto play on YouTube is not to defraud ad agencies

What is the full intention of enabling autoplay by default?

To keep the user engaged since "doing nothing" is the default action for people

Why do you pretend that humans are equivalent to bots?

And if you think skipping ads means the advertising agency gets screwed you are kind of showing ignorance...

Auditing logs is a crazy interpretation of "another person may view it"

I wonder if "criminal intent" may be missing here given that most people probably operate under the assumption that Anthropic are not reading their messages.

I think people have a binary understanding on this. Someone is either reading their messages or not. While the reality is that all the messages are read by a machine (not unlike GMail and Outlook) and anything suspicious gets flagged up so a human can read it. This obscure the concept of "reading" as most laypeople understand it.

Summary: don't type in Claude anything you wouldn't like a human to read.

It tells you exactly what it does with your information if you ask it, including this exact scenario, and has for at least four months now (when I asked).

Yes but you are someone (i assume because you are on HN) that at least understands this point. There are A LOT of people that use it as their confidant, expecting it to be private. There is a massive education issue going on as its not in the interest of these Corpos to make you fear sharing all your details with them. Because, then you wont get Dot or whatever Anthropic comes up with and share all your personal info with it.

You're not wrong, and it may come down to this in court, but there's a difference between what people think happens, or the reasonable expectations, and what actually happens, and I think it's important to recognise that difference and why it comes about.

I don't think someone is an idiot for thinking that the information they type into their private Claude account is private. I also don't think people are idiots for thinking their phone is listening to them and giving them targeted advertising based on that. Both are reasonable deductions from their lived experiences. Both are wrong.

Feel free to quote in the article what supports your summary given the article doesn't actually talk about that

In fact it mentions insurance fraud as the cause...

Additionally it certainly wasn't increasing cost but reduced income which is a very different issue

Yeah. Arson-induced insurance fraud. Hope this helps.

But that doesn't align with your phrasing above

Property taxes are unrelated to income tax

Most of your examples would not be considered harm for another...

Null terminated strings were an intentional compromise, known to be inferior for execution but superior for memory

Null being an "allowed" value for pointers is the mistake e.g. what became nullptr. "Allowed" because garbage values are garbage.

Think of the alternative where we'd be dealing with endless issues because someone though 255 or 2^16-1 characters ought to be enough for everyone.

VB6 :)

I mean when comparing to machines though the only thing the machines are better at is maybe not getting distracted while humans tend to be better at adapting which is usually important for safety to put it mildly

After all the first Tesla auto drive fatality was literally "that is probably a sign not a trunk"...

Object pooling is just malloc that is a little cheaper and maybe a different failure case when you are full...

If you have a good method to handle the equivalent of OOM then they can make a difference in how the program runs but normally they are just a performance optimization.

Honestly with 64 bit addresses it would be nice if address reuse were eliminated but that requires memory movement of a different kind (probably just as dangerous) or some terrible paging work for the OS...