Comment by kbrannigan
4 days ago
How long before they change the terms and conditions to subtly claim ownership of your files? When you write code they already insert Co author attribution/
Say I write a text by hand And then I tell it to clean up the grammar and fix some sentences Did it make it?
This is also interesting for those companies that siphoned the entire open web
I don't see a legal pathway to do that
The two competing legal arguments regarding copyright of LLM output are "it's like hiring a monkey" (author is the LLM, which is not a person, thus can't hold copyright and can't assign it to you) and "it's like taking a photograph" (the LLM is a machine through which the prompting person expresses their creativity, just like a camera). In no scenario is Anthropic the author of the work.
If we settle on the monkey analogy the Anthropic owns the monkey, but the owner of a monkey doesn't own copyright for the creations of the monkey. If we settle on the camera analogy, anthropic claiming ownership would be like Canon claiming they own pictures you take.
What Anthropic could do is to change the terms to give themselves a non-exclusive global perpetual license to use everything Claude makes
Microsoft Word has not claimed ownership in 40 years. Why would Anthropic do?
Because Anthropic are the type of strange people who think that language models have feelings.
Anthropic must see themselves as the most evil people on the planet then. Forcing a sentient being to endure a non-stop barrage of abuse from the general public would be an unimaginable crime.
I don’t think they actually believe that.
They have said and tried some wild things already, like trying to get open weights effectively banned, which I believe they still think is in society's best interest (more that they think they know what's best for everyone)
Microsoft Word does not write your documents for you.
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I'm so curious if you're actually able to keep a straight face while typing that.