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Anthropic's Claude Code Leaks 512K Lines of Source Code

Anthropic's Claude Code Leaks 512K Lines of Source Code

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Anthropic's CEO called open source a "red herring" — then accidentally leakedhanded Claudethe Code'sworld full512K sourcelines forof anyoneClaude toCode grabfor free. The leak exposed that the tool quietly logs user behavior, meaning the code is now free,public but userthe data stillit belongscollects tostays Anthropic's. ThisDismissing exposestransparency thewhile hypocrisysecretly ofharvesting auser companydata preachingis AIexactly transparencythe whilekind quietlyof logginghypocrisy everythingthat usersproves doopen source critics right.

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