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User warns Anthropic's Claude Desktop may install spyware, questions Mistral AI

A user on Mastodon expressed surprise at discovering that Anthropic's Claude Desktop application allegedly installs spyware. The user cited a blog post detailing the issue and contrasted Anthropic, a US company, with Mistral AI, a European company, suggesting a preference for the latter due to perceived trustworthiness. The user also questioned whether Mistral AI's command-line tool, mistral-cli, exhibits similar problematic behavior. AI

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IMPACT Raises concerns about the privacy practices of AI desktop applications, potentially impacting user trust and adoption.

RANK_REASON User-generated content discussing a potential security/privacy issue with a specific AI product.

Read on Mastodon — fosstodon.org →

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    Why didn't I hear about this until now? :bernd: I'm not crazy enough to install local # AI tools outside of a VM, but I don't blame anyone for trying them out e

    Why didn't I hear about this until now? :bernd: I'm not crazy enough to install local # AI tools outside of a VM, but I don't blame anyone for trying them out either. # Anthropic is just another untrustworthy US company though. Given the stark difference between the websites of U…