Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code's source code, issuing a copyright takedown request to remove 8,000+ copies
Developer issues copyright takedown request in bid to prevent competitors from cloning coding tool's features
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Discussion
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@merowing_
Krzysztof Zabłocki
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Claude leaked and now they did a wildcard DMCA notice to all @github repos mentioning claude? I just got one on my repo, which isn't the leak but a fork of the official @AnthropicAI repo 😂 I love you @AnthropicAI, but maybe a little careful with vibing everything? [image]
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@drgonzo123
Dennis Detwiller
on bluesky
Why? It's on the internet like my writing and art, so isn't it free for everyone to take and use?
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@patrickmccray
Patrick McCray
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wait...so Anthropic *doesn't* want people to steal intellectual property?? — Hmmm. — www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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@aussiastronomer
Dr. Jessie Christiansen
on bluesky
Anthropic discovering that copyright is, in fact, good, and other people shouldn't steal your stuff, actually. — www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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@spavel
Pavel
on bluesky
The vibe coded vibe coder. You can now take a look for yourself how well the “our top engineers don't even write code anymore” company has fared.
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Renewables grew to delete some of health dept. has destroyed over a Weird Al. (r/technology)
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r/TrueAnon
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Anthropic's Claude source code has leaked. Buh-bye
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Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent
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r/Anthropic
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Anthropic suddenly cares about the copyright
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Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent