alt Hacker NewsBut surely at least one of the websites Anthropic scraped to make Claude had a ToS forbidding automatic access?
Why is Anthropic's ToS any more binding than that of a rabidly-anti-ai literature blog with 50 readers?
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> Why is Anthropic's ToS any more binding than that of a rabidly-anti-ai literature blog with 50 readers?
I mean i know you know the answer: anthropic is a corporation with lawyers on retainer, and that's really all that matters
Do feel free to read the court documents to find out and let us know.
> Why is Anthropic's ToS any more binding than that of a rabidly-anti-ai literature blog with 50 readers?
Although I will say, this whole comparison stuff really doesn't seem to be your thing; might impede your analysis quite a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013148
Maybe ask Claude?
One reason is that they might not have scraped it themselves, so if there was a ToS, it was someone else who broke it. For example, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pile_(dataset)
Another reason is that if you can download a web page without agreeing to a ToS, I'm not sure that counts as one?