Anthropic quietly restricts Claude's reverse-engineering ability, sparking open-model debate
jdjohnson · x · 2026-10-26
Claude can no longer 'Reverse Engineer Anything' (REA). The timing is notable: after viral cases of people using Claude to reverse-engineer Samsung TV firmware and identify data-collection services, Anthropic appears to have restricted those abilities. jdjohnson argues the asymmetry — using others' work to train models while blocking reverse engineering — is why open models matter.
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