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But if I wanted to collect data I could just change my website’s download policy and require full name and email?

Yes but this was true before Claude existed.

The difference is that claude won't lie though. You could put whatever email you want in headers to SEC.

It'll lie if you ask it to.

Defaults are important. Bots want (read: the makers of models want) to put their signature on commits but not requests.

Or payment. Maybe to run some crypto mining for a bit first and send the proceeds on.