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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by jstanley on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:34AM (#50389678)
> So Claude should just not submit anything requiring the email address and come back to you with the reason things didn't work.

The fact that it doesn't do what you want is the alignment problem.

And arguably Claude should just make it work without leaking your email address and not come back to you about why it doesn't work.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by jessriedel on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:15PM (#50401290)
No, the context was this:

> but the entity instructing this behavior is the SEC. Tricky alignment problem.

The OP was suggesting that the government authority of the SEC conflicted with duty to the user, making the correction action tricky, not saying it was a failure. Such conflicts can occur, but this was not an example.

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