Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac; says it didn’t put it there

A Redditor used Claude Code AI to build a Mac temperature monitor app and found that the machine was running much hotter than expected. Claude reported that it found a crypto miner using more than 1,000% of the CPU cycles – then added an unprompted comment denying having installed it.

Some Redditors were understandably suspicious of Claude’s spontaneous comment that it wasn’t responsible for installing the rogue app …

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