[Bratmon]

But 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?

[skybrian]

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?

[queenkjuul]

> 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

[perching_aix]

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?