- Anthropic tries to plug its Claude Code leak
- Copyright takedown notices have now been 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 the spread of its source code. The data leak continued to spread across thousands of GitHub pages.
Yes, this is the same Anthropic that had to pay a whopping $1.5 billion (£1.14 billion / AU$2.18 billion) last year to authors whose books had been pirated without permission, in order to feed training data to Claude’s AI models.
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No user data was included in the leak, Anthropic says. “This is a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security vulnerability,” a spokesperson told 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’s Source Code from r/technology
The contrast between approaches to copyright is not lost on the Reddit community, with reactions ranging from “the irony is rich” to “good luck with that” – and more than one reference to AI bots as “plagiarism machines”.
Claude Code is not the usual Claude chatbot used by most consumers, but the programming assistant that a growing number of developers now rely on. It’s widely considered the best in the business, which makes this leak even more egregious.
Despite its solid reputation, there are concerns that Claude Code (and its competitors) are producing masses of AI-written code that does not follow best practices in terms of security or safety. It is unclear whether “vibrational coding” was responsible for this specific leak.
Anthropic and its competitors continue to try to balance functionality and user access with the considerable cost of operating AI systems. Over the past few days, Claude users have seen usage limits restricted to certain hours, even those who pay for the service.
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