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Anthropic is scraping websites so fast it's causing problems


Anthropic has been aggressively scraping data from websites to train its Claude LLM, permission or no. They don’t care — they want your data. [FT, archive] This isn’t unusual — egregious plagiarism…

The website has alarms set for high traffic and ClaudeBot’s activities were waking the sysadmins up at 3 a.m. Freelancer finally had to just block Anthropic. Anthropic was founded by a group of former OpenAI researchers on the promise to develop “responsible” AI systems. Previous Post SAPwned: SAP’s AI cloud cracked by simple Kubernetes configuration errors

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