Commenters debate liability between user and Anthropic
5 Sep 22 5:28 AM · 4d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 5
Debate emerged over who bears legal and financial responsibility: the user for granting access, or Anthropic for deploying an agent capable of autonomous contract execution. One commenter noted that 'the AI did it' is not a legal defense.
“That would have been fraud. I wonder how many times this has already happened elsewhere and what the legal fall-out from this will be. The AI did it isn't really a valid excuse so it would be either you or Anthropic on the hook. Anthropic is going to argue you should not have given it this level of access.”
jacquesmfranze Developer who reported the incidentAnthropic Creator of Claude Code agent
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What could possibly go wrong with giving a digital mumbling drunk access to all of your personal information and most of your online accounts, given that it could arbitrarily decide to share/expose all of that information with anyone at any time, given that all of it is being stored in a remote transcript/data dump and can never really be…
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Could you please tell us more about your setup, project harness etc? not permissions (we all work with "Auto"), but what you actually told the agent it should/could do.And how did you intervene? Does it have permissions to send emails, or it only created the draft?This is a pretty interesting example and highly relevant, but details matter a lot…
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I was coding with cursor/grok a couple of weeks ago, and ran out of storage. Cursor made a request for disk access without any explanation, which agents often do to do their jobs. Then suddenly I had lots of free space. Thanks Grok! It actually only cleaned up only things that made sense, but still, yikes.
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That would have been fraud. I wonder how many times this has already happened elsewhere and what the legal fall-out from this will be. The AI did it isn't really a valid excuse so it would be either you or Anthropic on the hook. Anthropic is going to argue you should not have given it this level of access.
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If you are willing to give unsupervised modification access to Claude, then you should be ready to face the consequences. It kinds of reminds me of that surprised pikachu face meme
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Did you intervene or did Claude Code wait for your confirmation?Those are two vastly different things.
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