alt Hacker NewsGenuine question though, why would I care about this if I'm paying for a subscription and adhering to TOS. I'm very skeptical about their privacy policy, business practices, and so on, but am curious what the negative about this is. Seems like it would work to my favour as a customer pushing back any date of the cutting of subsidies.
That said, these fraudulent proxies are helping Chinese labs keep up, which might be to my advantage long term in eventually having a high quality private AI I fully control on my own hardware. That's not support, but I do recognize the incentive, for whatever that's worth.
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Because they could use (or maybe are already using) similar techniques to do things you don't approve of, without your awareness.
What if they decide you're not patriotic enough, serving you evil models, because one man with a lot of shmeckels told them to?
One negative is that Claude Code is pretty buggy, and Anthropic makes frequent changes that cause unexpected regressions [0]. With the harness now doing weird stuff with proxies, I'd be worried of them inadvertently introducing bugs which affect people using the feature legitimately.
[0] A recent example: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem