- Anthropic is trying to fix the leak of its Code Claude
- Copyright Takedown Notices Already Issued
- No private user data was included in the code leak.
Anthropic is working hard to try to limit the damage caused by the massive Claude Code leak earlier this week, which spilled more than half a million lines of code onto the open web, revealing some of the AI chatbot’s inner workings.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal and others, Anthropic is now issuing copyright takedown notices to prevent its source code from spreading further. The data leak has continued to spread across thousands of GitHub pages.
Yes, it’s the same Anthropic that had to pay $1.5 billion last year to authors whose books had been pirated without permission, in order to feed training data into Claude’s AI models.
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No user data was included in the leak, Anthropic says. “This was a packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach,” a spokesperson told the WSJ. “We are putting measures in place to prevent this from happening again.”
‘Good luck with that’
Anthropic Issues Copyright Takedown Requests to Remove Over 8,000 Copies of Claude Code Source Code from r/technology
The contrast in approaches to copyright law is not lost on the Reddit community, with reactions ranging from “irony is rich” to “good luck with that,” and more than one reference to AI robots as “plagiarism machines.”
Claude Code is not the usual Claude chatbot that most consumers use, but the programming assistant that an increasing number of developers now rely on. He is widely considered the best in the business, which makes this leak even more egregious.
Despite its strong reputation, there are concerns that Claude Code (and its competitors) are producing large amounts of AI-written code that does not follow best practices in terms of security. It is unclear whether or not ‘vibration coding’ was responsible for this specific leak.
Both Anthropic and its competitors continue to try to balance features and user access with the enormous cost of running AI systems. In recent days, Claude users have seen usage limits restricted at certain times, even those who pay for the service.
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