User discovers his own info baked into Claude Opus model weights
JasonBotterill · x · 2026-09-16
A user (Jason Botterill) was surprised to find that Claude Opus appeared to recall personal information about him, quipping that he is literally in Opus's model weights. The moment highlights ongoing concerns about memorization of training data and personal privacy in large pretrained models.
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