Comment by wongarsu

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