Brian Gordon3h ago
Paul Cantrell

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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Show threadPaul Cantrell7h ago

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•.

Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)7h ago
@inthehands I second the motion!
Show threadBryan Veal7h ago
@inthehands Don’t we have some recent precedent that work produced by machines isn’t copyrighted?
Show threadPaul Cantrell7h ago
@koushiniku
Indeed, I’m not sure Anthropic has a leg to stand on here. This is why my offer is so incredibly generous!
Show threadPaul Turnbull 🇨🇦7h ago
@inthehands Getting stuff off the internet is like trying to get pee out of pool. Once it's out there, it's out there.
Show threadPaul_IPv67h ago

@inthehands

🎶 AI karma's gonna get you
Your stock value it will erase.
Build a decent product
And stop screwing the human race 🎶

Show threadarclight7h ago
@inthehands This would all be a lot funnier if the collapse and self-immolation of these bastards damaged only themselves.
Show threadGrovewest5h ago
@inthehands AI can generate machine instructions humans can read and deploy those. Legally one could ask AI to generate machine instructions that function like Anthropic that do not use any of the same methods. In that case any methods used would be considered common, there would be no violation of either copy writes or patents. AI is a Frankenstein they will eventually lose control of.
Show threadFrancisca Sinn4h ago

@inthehands The thing is, the SCOTUS just confirmed that there’s no copyright in “AI” generated output. And Anthropic has boasted about how Claude codes Claude so, as numerous IP lawyers like me have warned, Anthropic is in a pickle. They’d *like* to say they have copyright and no one cans scrape and use it, but they’re in court arguing it’s legal for companies (them) to use whatever they can get their hands on, so… [insert gif of tiniest tiny violin] 😂

Background: https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case over whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted.

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Show threadkira for scale1h ago
@inthehands truly their apes gone
Show threadS.I.M.P.L.E.1h ago
@inthehands I happen to think Claude is the most useful of the AI chatbots out there. So if this leads to self-hostable open-source LLMs being as good and useful as Claude is (bringing everything full-circle, so to speak), I will not complain one bit. It’s too late to turn the AI tide, so bring it back into the hands of the people, is what I’m saying.