>The courts have ruled that AI outputs are not copyrightable.

"not copyrightable" doesn't imply they can't frustrate attempts to scrape data.

Nobody is saying they can't try to stop you themselves. That's where the Terms of Service violation part comes in. They can cancel your account, block your IP, etc. They just can't legally stop you by, for instance, compelling a judge to order you to stop.

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dpark 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> They just can't legally stop you by, for instance, compelling a judge to order you to stop.

They probably can, actually. TOS are legally binding.

More likely they would block you rather than pursuing legal avenues but they certainly could.

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petcat 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The Supreme Court already ruled on this. Scraping public data, or data that you are authorized to access, is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Now, if you try to get around attempts to block your access, then yes you could be in legal trouble. But that's not what is happening here. These are people/companies that have Claude accounts in good standing and are authorized by Anthropic to access the data.

Nobody is saying that Anthropic can't just block them though, and they are certainly trying.

	▲	dpark 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn’t say anything about the computer fraud and abuse act. TOS are legally binding contracts in their own right if implemented correctly.