An AI corporation crying big tears over having its code copied without its consent in a way that undermines its business, maybe its very existence?

If it’s an April Fools joke, it’s brilliant.

It it’s not an April Fools joke, it’s even more brilliant. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116330548519902234

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Anthropic Issues Copyright Takedown Requests To Remove 8,000 Copies of Claude Code Source Code https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/04/01/158240/anthropic-issues-copyright-takedown-requests-to-remove-8000-copies-of-claude-code-source-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

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Anthropic, I’ll make you a deal:

Re-train your model without a single line of my open source contributions as input, and I will gladly refrain from ever copying or sharing the code •you• generated by (in part) using •mine•.