Don’t worry everybody, they’re only spying on the evil foreigners. Anthropic is a very wholesome company with very serious Red Lines about spying on the good American people.

TLDR it was aimed at detecting / blocking competing AI companies trying to copy their model. Ironic given the provenance of most training data, but not entirely malware per se.

What’s it about posts with those circular colored patterns? Is it just some hazard, or does it mean something?

It’s terrible and also not what the title implies.