Comment by weird-eye-issue
2 days ago
I'm sorry that I'm disputing their totally scientific "timescale". Btw did you mean timeline?
It can take a while for spammers to get your address on their list. Generally the amount of spam over time only goes up. Just because there's a correlation doesn't mean there is a causation. Anyone with an email address, including on a custom work domain, has experienced this and Claude wasn't responsible for all email spam lol
Why are you being intentionally rude? Timescale is completely the right word and it is very telling that you didn't even bother to look up the definition, and in fact suggested a word that is more incorrect! I have a custom domain that is registered with very few select services and receive practically no spam. Are you trying to say that Anthropic should not be concerned with making their users' experience worse/better? Or that is simply our fault for being concerned about spam in our email inboxes?
Because a large chunk of this community sees anything that puts LLMs in a negative light as an attack on them.
I could care less about that but bringing up completely irrelevant things to blame it for is a bit annoying. At least stick to factual things.
Sites aren't scraping their logs for email address in request headers and selling that to spammers. Getting emails to spam is already easy.
I have email addresses I literally don't use to sign up for anything and they still get spam because you can easily guess the address based on first name on LinkedIn plus the company domain. Spam has been a thing since email was invented.
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You are just putting words in my mouth. I agree Anthropic should not be putting the email addressing in prompts. But I'm simply disagreeing with the causation implied about how it is suddenly causing a bunch of spam.
I am a heavy user and I checked my logs and never once did it include my email in any sort of web requests. The chance that it actually included that person's email and then that led to them getting spammed is just incredibly low.