FSF Threatens Anthropic Over Copyright Infringement — Demands LLMs Be Released Freely
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The Free Software Foundation issued a formal legal threat against Anthropic, citing training data copyright violations and demanding the company release Claude's weights under a free software license. This is the first FSF legal action specifically targeting a major AI lab's training corpus, distinct from ongoing author and publisher civil suits. The story surfaced on HN today (16pts, early) and represents an escalation in the copyleft vs. AI training debate.