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This happened to me too. Not 'Claude code' as such but I was doing some I guess slightly grey area scraping (of an undocumented public API) and got my IP addres

This happened to me too. Not 'Claude code' as such but I was doing some I guess slightly grey area scraping (of an undocumented public API) and got my IP address blacklisted. I signed up for some rotating residential proxies to get around that, and then noticed that the scraping system Claude had built for me 'helpfully' added my email address as a user-agent. It mentioned that it decided to do this so that they could reach out to me and ask questions instead of blocking me again, but still probably one of the strongest cases of misalignment I've seen from an AI

uberman 2mo ago
Essentially the same happened to me but my conclusion was that this was reasonable and I left it as is. I don't personally see this as misalignment though I can see some being surprised by it. I also what to be clear that there was no obfuscation here. Opus said as I recall. "Let's use your email as the agent string here because ..." and my thought was: Good idea, hopefully if they saw something in the logs that caused them to find this they might view my scraping as benign or contact me rather than try to ban me"