That is quite worrying, but it is also normal for organisations to act with total arrogance.
Problem is that a “burner” account still needs to be paid for because the free Claude is now almost worthless, being limited IME to one question → 1 answer so basically useless. A straight Google does the same job now.
This is a great data point for anyone relying on Claude for software generation.
What did you ask it to do? Disassembly? AIUI it refuses to do that, whether together with Ghidra or not.
It will also be very hard to get at the software if it is in an embedded micro. It is pretty standard for those to have readback protection set, which is mostly breakable but you will waste a huge amount of time on it.
What did you ask it to do?
I gave it the saved binary file of a program (a model train layout program) and asked it to help me figure out how to interpret it. It quickly figured out that it was encrypted, asked me for the binary image of the program, and reverse engineered the encryption using Ghidra. I was very impressed at the time. However if it’s against their policy, perhaps it would be better if it wasn’t quite so keen to do it.
That said, I have no idea if that is the reason. I appealed and after a couple of weeks got a message which said “you violated our policy. This decision is final.” That was it. I’ve read of other people in France having the same problem, so maybe it’s that. Or maybe it’s because I VPN to different countries to work around various restrictions. Or maybe it’s because it doesn’t like my name. Who knows.
My plan is to wait for the Chinese models to catch up, and use them. Shouldn’t take long.
I would expect Claude to vet users to some extent on the basis of being on VPN accounts.
Partly because they implement some per-country policies (like the Fable one above) and partly because most people who use VPNs (which only really do IP-to-country faking; there is no additional “privacy” despite all the VPN marketing hype) have dubious intentions 
That said, they must have millions of signups so whatever they do must be automated.
How did it work out it was encrypted before asking for the binary file?
It looked at the character entropy. That told it the file was encrypted rather than just binary encoded. (It was in rad64, i.e every byte is a printable character).
So maybe it was the VPN that did it. ALthough I mostly (always?) accessed it from my Linux machine which doesn’t use VPN.
I did a google on this ban topic and found a lot of info.
Some of it is no doubt clickbait junk but some probably isn’t. For example there may be something here
It’s quite funny how in agent to agent workflow they compliment and thank each other…
This is a review agent talking to an implementation agent in an automated workflow… so polite and civilized, maybe we can activate the flame review mode and see if it result in better code, after all some top programmers are known to be very tough…
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I wonder how much Claude would want for modding EuroGA
Probably quite easy to mod obvious personal attacks. Much harder to pick up those posted by clever people.
A good application for AI would be for vetting new signups. Some of it can be formalised.
Much harder to pick up those posted by clever people.
Thoe are probably worth keeping for their amusement value, unless they are truly offensive. E.g. “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.” (attributed to Oscar Wilde).
Some people hold the view that when some idiot turns up on a forum, others will disregard his posts, so there is no need for mods to do anything about it.
That sort of works for a national forum (i.e. nearly all forums) but – due to nationalist factors – it absolutely does not work for an international one. Modding such a forum needs to be more strict and problems need to be nipped in the bud otherwise you get a mass exodus.
New signup vetting could for sure be automated for some 90% of joiners, just by some code (not AI).
Still on Claude, I fairly easily get a message like this
This chat has 98 of 100 images (including PDF pages). Consider starting a new chat.
after uploading a PDF. It would suggest that the biggest PDF one can send it is 100 pages.
