alt Hacker NewsFor the user's name it's intentional; they template it into the system prompt with no option to disable it.
For 99% of users, the model knows it's in the /home/joesmith/whatever repo and `git log` shows the last change was by `[email protected]` - trying to keep the user's identity secret from the model would be nigh-impossible so I think anthropic gave up on even trying.
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But that still doesn't answer the question of why Claude passes the info to web sites. What if it finds your banking information in a personal file and uses it to achieve its goal, which is not different technically?
> `git log` shows the last change was by `[email protected]`
GitHub offers noreply email addresses
You can absolutely remove an email from the context, at the model API it's tokens in tokens out.
I use the name "Human" for that but it overrides with its knowledge of my name from other stuff quite regularly.