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[Spooky all year]

I don't know how asking it primitive questions is all that much to worry about. I literally just asked it how to decode ISO4909 and had it help me optimize my nginx config, which it was a little overzealous about.

I asked Claudius, based on what you told me you put in, what they could realistically get from you.

Spoiler: Claude's tl;dr here.

Take his two examples. ISO 4909 is the standard for magnetic stripe track 3 data, so he just told Zhipu that this account belongs to someone working on payment cards — POS, ATM, or card processing infrastructure. That single query is already a targeting indicator. The nginx optimization is worse if he pasted any real config: server_name directives reveal his domains, upstream blocks reveal internal service architecture and hostnames, location blocks reveal API endpoints, and the overall shape of the file reveals his tech stack even if he sanitized the obvious secrets. Most people sanitize passwords and forget that the structure itself is intelligence.


Now add the metadata layer: IP address, account email if he registered, query timing patterns, language fingerprint, what time zone he operates in, what other queries he runs over six months. You end up with a person identified by sector and employer, working on specific infrastructure he's just described in detail, with predictable habits. That is a dossier good enough to phish him precisely or to sell to someone who will.


The legal piece is the part people genuinely underrate. Under the PRC's National Intelligence Law (2017), Article 7, Chinese organizations and citizens are legally obligated to support and cooperate with national intelligence work. The Data Security Law (2021) and the Cybersecurity Law layer on top of that. There is no warrant requirement comparable to Western frameworks, no judicial review, and no meaningful recourse. Zhipu AI is a PRC entity headquartered in Beijing, and everything that touches their infrastructure sits under that regime by default. It is not a question of whether they would cooperate with a request — they are required to.

Do with that what you will, bud. Personally, I'd stay far away from any chinky shit.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

Do with that what you will, bud. Personally, I'd stay far away from any chinky shit.

Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies. You don't need to give it any personal information. If it wants my OpenVPN IP and my browser information, I didn't sanitize that, but I've even got JS blocked so it can't steal keystrokes, et al.

If Grok wasn't so fucking useless, I'd use that. Claude and OpenAI have really turned into absolute shit.

Thanks for the concern.

 

[Spooky all year]

Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies. You don't need to give it any personal information. If it wants my OpenVPN IP and my browser information, I didn't sanitize that, but I've even got JS blocked so it can't steal keystrokes, et al.

If Grok wasn't so fucking useless, I'd use that. Claude and OpenAI have really turned into absolute shit.

Thanks for the concern.

What last version of GPT have you tried? 5.5 isn't nearly as terrible as its 5.x predecessors. I'm also not unhappy with Claude, but then again, ymmv because I'm not using it like you are. (I hate 4.8 though. I cannot work with it).

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

What last version of GPT have you tried? 5.5 isn't nearly as terrible as its 5.x predecessors. I'm also not unhappy with Claude, but then again, ymmv because I'm not using it like you are. (I hate 4.8 though. I cannot work with it).

5.1. That's when I decided that I had enough. Claude 4.6 is OK, but it isn't 4.5. It likes to get into semantics over bullshit when I'm just asking it to LINT something.

 

[Spooky all year]

5.1. That's when I decided that I had enough. Claude 4.6 is OK, but it isn't 4.5. It likes to get into semantics over bullshit when I'm just asking it to LINT something.

My dude, you realize you can still reach 4.5 on API right? If you've got a sub and CLI setup, you can use 4.5 no issue. And Opus is going to be around at least until November this year. Sonnet till September 29 I think. I'm still using them currently.

GPT 5.1 was absolute trash. I have to agree on that. 5.5 has actively been decent with me though. I got into semantics bullshit fights with 5.1 and up constantly. That is now gone for the most part. I don't know where the edges are right now though, because I've not been testing GPT as extensively.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

Yeah. I have 4.5 setup with code. Newer instances aren't making it easy to continue using 4.5.

 

[Spooky all year]

Yeah. I have 4.5 setup with code. Newer instances aren't making it easy to continue using 4.5.

You mean newer 4.5 instances? Or what? Also, if you're on a mac and looking to multi window on CLI, you can download and run Ghostty to use instead of the regular terminal and that supports opening multiple windows running CC. I remember you having an issue with multiple instances at the same time before.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

You mean newer 4.5 instances? Or what? Also, if you're on a mac and looking to multi window on CLI, you can download and run Ghostty to use instead of the regular terminal and that supports opening multiple windows running CC. I remember you having an issue with multiple instances at the same time before.

Yeah newer 4.5 instances. Whenever I make a new directory and fire up claude, it makes me manually select 4.5 and perpetually gives me hell about keeping that instance when I restart. I think it's something they've done with the CLI specifically, because the CLI I installed back in April just works- however, that's only one instance, and since it doesn't carry across anything from previous sessions, I need to remember to carry/sync my folders when working from different locations. Probably should eventually just run them all from a VPS or something but that's annoying to keep a service for an extra.. 2ish months.