alt Hacker NewsSure, it's a hard problem, that doesn't mean we shouldn't tackle it. It is in fact one of the more urgent problems for Anthropic to address properly.
I'd feel a lot safer granting fine grained permissions like that, than knowing that the only thing stopping the LLM reading files is that it hasn't thought to do so.
I mean, I think Claude has some controls on file access, but I'm not exactly sure any more what is and what isn't allowed. The impression their desktop app gives is that you need to give permission for each and every file or folder access, but I'd feel a lot safer if that were imposed by an operating system level constraint, not claude trying to read the use of tools and ok/disallow them based on what an llm thinks.
It seems very unlikely that "leaking email addresses" is anywhere near being "one of the more urgent problems for Anthropic". This is a company whose training models occasionally commit felonies, and whose IPO documents claim that they might potentially kill all of humanity.