Anthropic could at least make a compelling case for the copyright.

It becomes legally challenging with regards to ownership if I ever use work equipment for a personal project. If it later takes off they could very well try to claim ownership in its entirety simply because I ran a test once (yes, there's a while silicon valley season for it).

I don't know if they'd win, but Anthropic absolutely would be able to claim the creation of that code was done on their hardware. Obviously we aren't employees of theirs, though we are customers that very likely never read what we agreed to in a signup flow.

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CobrastanJorji 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Using work equipment for a personal project only matters because you signed a contract giving all of your IP to your employer for anything you did with (or sometimes without) your employer's equipment.

Anthropic's user agreement does not have a similar agreement.

	▲	_heimdall 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My point was that they could make a compelling case though, not that they would win. I don't know of ant precedent where the code was literally generated on someone else's system. Its an open question whether that implies any legal right to the work and I could pretty easily see a court accepting the case.

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windexh8er 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think all you need to do is claim that your girlfriend is your laptop. /s