Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties:

Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:08:59 GMT

fourthworld@mastodon.online — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:08:59 GMT

@pluralistic so their gawdknowshowmany billions of investment in AI didn't help prevent a basic error?

Doesn't bode well for the "agentic future".

Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:28:46 GMT

benny@kirche.social — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:28:46 GMT

@pluralistic there's good reasons why voting machines are illegal in Germany.

Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:55:35 GMT

chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:55:35 GMT

@pluralistic #AI is #clankers all the way down.

#Resist #AIslop.

Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:36:23 GMT

james@beige.party — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:36:23 GMT

@pluralistic
If Claude scrapped Claude’s source code would he have to take it down?

Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:47 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:47 GMT

Expanding copyright will gain little for creative workers, except for a new reason to be angry about how our audiences experience our work. Expanding *labor* rights will gain much, for *every* worker, including our audiences. It's an idea that our bosses - *and* AI hucksters - hate with every fiber of their beings.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:37 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:37 GMT

It's *great* that Claude Code's source is online. It's *great* that we have the ability to pore over, analyze and criticize this code, which has become so consequential in so many ways. It's *great* the copyright is weak enough that this is possible (for now).

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:28 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:28 GMT

Copyright positions the creative worker as a small business - an LLC with an MFA - bargaining B2B with another firm. To the extent that copyright helps us, it is largely incidental. Sure, we were able to file for a few thousand bucks per book that Anthropic downloaded from a pirate site to train its models on. But Anthropic doesn't have to use a shadow library to get those books - it can just pay our bosses to get them.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:14 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:32:14 GMT

If we creative workers are going to pour our resources into a new policy to address the threats that our bosses - and the AI companies they are morally and temperamentally indistinguishable from - represent to our livelihoods, then let that new policy be a renewed sectoral bargaining right for *every* worker. It was sectoral bargaining (a collective, solidaristic right) and not copyright (an individual, commercial right) that saw off AI in the Hollywood writers' strike.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:51 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:51 GMT

These goals are *entirely compatible with copyright*. The *New York Times* is suing over AI - and they're licensing their writers' words to train an AI model:

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

The *NYT* wants more copyright. You know what the *NYT* *doesn't* want? More *labor* rights. The *NYT* are vicious union-busters:

CAPTCHA check

(actionnetwork.org)

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:40 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:40 GMT

> They took the books I wrote about love to create chatbots that isolate people and prevent them from finding human love in the real world, that make it difficult for them to even stand real love, which is not always agreeable, not always positive, not always focused on end-user engagement. They took the books I wrote about hope and glitter in the face of despair and oppression and used it to make a Despair-and-Oppression generator.
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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:25 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:25 GMT

I'm angry about the AI industry, but not because of *copyright*. I'm angry at them for the reasons Cat Valente articulated so well in her "Blood Money" essay:

Blood Money: The Anthropic Settlement

The actual audacity of it all

(catvalente.substack.com)

These companies' stated goals are terrible:

> They took the books I wrote for children and used them to make it possible for children to not bother with reading ever again.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:04 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:31:04 GMT

If the media bosses get their way, and manage to make it even more illegal - and practically harder - to host, discuss, and publish facts about copyrighted works, then leaks like the Claude Code disclosures will never see the light of day. It's only because of decades of hard-fought battles to push back on this nonsense that we are able to identify and learn about the defects in Claude Code that are revealed by this source-code leak.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:50 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:50 GMT

It's their enthusiastic deployment of AI tools for mass surveillance and mass killing. (Anthropic is no exception, despite what you may have heard:)

How Much a Dollar Cost?

The AI Bubble in 2026 (2/4)

(www.thetechbubble.info)

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:37 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:37 GMT

But what's objectionable about Anthropic - and the AI sector - isn't *copyright*. The thing that makes these companies disgusting is their gleeful, fraudulent trumpeting about how their products will destroy the livelihoods of every kind of worker:

Pluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(pluralistic.net)

And it's their economic fraud, the inflation of a bubble that will destroy the economy when it bursts:

The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:25 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:25 GMT

It's darkly hilarious to see the company firehosing copyright complaints by the thousands in order to prevent the dissemination, dissection and discussion of the source-code that leaked due to the company's gross incompetence:

Anthropic Issues Copyright Takedown Requests To Remove 8,000+ Copies of Claude Code Source Code - Slashdot

Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leak of the underlying instructions for its Claude Code AI agent. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and ad...

(developers.slashdot.org)

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:05 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:30:05 GMT

Of course I see the irony. Anthropic has taken an extremely aggressive posture on copyright's "limitations and exceptions," arguing that it can train its models on *any* information it can find, and that it can knowingly download massive troves of infringing works for that purpose.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:49 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:49 GMT

The Claude Code leak is full of fascinating information about a tool that - like Diebold's voting machines - is at the very center of the most important policy debates of our time. Here's just one example: Claude is almost certainly implicated in the US missile that murdered a building full of little girls in Iran last month:

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:36 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:36 GMT

If these companies manage to get copyright law expanded to restrict scraping, analysis, and publication of factual information, they won't use those new powers to increase creators' pay - they'll use them the same way they've used *every* new copyright created in the past 40 years, to make themselves richer at the expense of artists:

Pluralistic: 03 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(pluralistic.net)

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:18 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:18 GMT

Disney takes the position that when it buys a company like Lucasfilm, it secures the right to publish the works Lucasfilm commissioned, but not the obligation to pay the royalties that Lucasfilm owes when those works are sold:

Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(pluralistic.net)

As Theresa Nielsen Hayden quipped during the Napster Wars: "Just because you're on their side, it doesn't mean they're on your side."

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:05 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:05 GMT

What these companies want is to be paid a license fee for access to their catalogs, and then they want the resulting models to be exclusive to them, and not available to competitors:

Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(pluralistic.net)

These companies are violently allergic to paying creative workers.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:53 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:53 GMT

It's clear that the media companies that have sued the AI giants aren't "anti-AI." They don't want to prevent AI from replacing creative workers - they just want to control how that happens.

When Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, it's not to prevent AI models from being trained on their catalogs and used to pauperize the workers whose work is in those catalogs.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:39 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:39 GMT

They claim that making a transient copy of a work, analyzing that work, and publishing that analysis is a copyright infringement:

Pluralistic: Copyright won’t solve creators’ Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(pluralistic.net)

Here's a good rule of thumb: any time your boss demands a new rule, you should be very skeptical about whether that rule will benefit *you*.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:20 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:20 GMT

They struck for the right not to have their wages eroded by AI - to have the right to use (or not use) AI, as they saw fit, without risking their livelihoods.

Right now, many media companies are demanding a new copyright that would allow them to control AI training, and many creative workers have joined in this call. The media companies aren't arguing against infringing *uses* of AI models - they're arguing that the mere *creation* of such a model infringes copyright.

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Reply to Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties: on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:04 GMT

pluralistic@mamot.fr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:04 GMT

Two years later, the Hollywood Writers struck again, this time over AI in the writers' room, securing a *stunning* victory over the major studios:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

Notably, the writers strike was a *labor* action, not a copyright action. The writers weren't demanding a new copyright that would allow them to control whether their work could be used to train an AI.

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