[ashu1461]

It has started to backfire.

Claude also had to a pay almost 1.5b for illegally training / scrapping.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/business/anthropic-ai-settlem...

[teachrdan]

IIUC that was for illegally downloading ebooks and other media -- it had nothing to do with training per se. Scraping publicly accessible data is generally legal, although Microsoft/LinkedIn clearly think they have enough of a leg to stand on to at least litigate this.

[woodrowbarlow]

anthropic was _not_ sued for including data scraped from public websites. they were sued for including data extracted from pirated books.