alt Hacker NewsThis is a bit ironic, Anthropic complaining about a competitor using claude data to build its own product when Anthropic basically used all of human knowledge production to build claude, i don't think they paid every magazine, author, journalist, etc ...
This is almost standard practice in any competitive industry anyways. Disassemble your competitor's product, study it and try to reproduce / improve.
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It's a claude eat claude world out there
Yeah, and I believe Anthropic would "distill back" without thinking twice, if the other model would be good enough.
Yup, it's hard to take seriously any complaint about "stealing" Anthropic's services, when their entire business is based on massive theft.
Ironically, it's likely that the only reason USG let them get away with this — instead of making obvious and necessary adjustments to copyright law — was so that the industry would remain competitive with China.
Anthropic did pay $1.5B to authors. But yes, it would be much better if they paid everyone on the internet dividends from every Claude chat. Or released Claude as an open model.
In practice, the former isn't very realistic, while the latter is politically dead as this is becoming a national security issue.
Yea I’ll never have any sympathy for this claim given that Claude is built on theft