In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons.

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@zackwhittaker

I don't think that's gonna go as well for them as they're hoping.

I mean, obviously, we'll see. I just suspect they're going to edge out some folks who'd otherwise sing their praises.

[bzdev@fosstodon.org]

@FinFangFoomed @zackwhittaker If a company wants to use Claude and Claude wants an ID, how about giving Claude your employee ID? If your employer won't trust them with your employee ID, you shouldn't trust them with your driver's license.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker Makes my shift out of the technical world that much nicer. I'll just grab my bucket of popcorn and watch the fireworks. 🧨

[heatherferris@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker Argh. Don't sell your soul to the devil Claude!

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@zackwhittaker

FFS ‍️

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker

[badsamurai@infosec.exchange]

@zackwhittaker

TechCrunch reporting on privacy issues would like you to remove your ad blocker you enabled for privacy.

[zackwhittaker@mastodon.social]

@badsamurai yep, I hate it too but it's above my pay grade, and I don't recommend people switch off their ad-blocker.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@paul_ipv6 @zackwhittaker That's no problem for us, but what worries me is that so many others will just go ahead and do it. Especially quite a lot of developers apparently are all in on using Claude for coding and people, in general, are so resistant to change they'll sell their souls rather than change what they've decided they like. These things have a tendency to somehow manage to get us too via ricochet so to speak.

[baralheia@dragonchat.org]

@zackwhittaker Yet another reason to avoid the bullshit generators entirely

[patrickoldhiker@ohai.social]

@badsamurai @zackwhittaker Usually, once such popups are on screen, even switching off my ad-blocker doesn't provide access to the page. Though using the "hide distracting elements" feature in Safari sometimes will.

[mermaidchaser@mstdn.social]

@zackwhittaker just another reason to use your brain and not ai

[joao72@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker Looking forward to us going back to pre-internet days and moving to gopher protocol for any online community interaction. I’ll never participate in this ID verification internet especially when a US company is involved.

[mwritter@universeodon.com]

@zackwhittaker #ROTFLMAO

[badsamurai@infosec.exchange]

@Patrickoldhiker @zackwhittaker

I roll ad blockers at DNS layer. They can be mad about it; but I’m not about to update my infrastructure for their adware network for any article.