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Claude Code now supports hooks

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381 points ramoz | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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bionhoward ◴[01 Jul 25 00:48 UTC] No.44429497[source]▶
Given the Anthropic legal terms forbid competing with them, what are we actually allowed to do with this? Seems confusing what is allowed.

No machine learning work? That would compete.

No writing stuff I would train AI on. Except I own the stuff it writes, but I can’t use it.

Can we build websites with it? What websites don’t compete with Anthropic?

Terminal games? No, Claude code is a terminal game, if you make a terminal game it competes with Claude?

Can their “trust and safety team” humans read everyone’s stuff just to check if we’re competing with LLMs (funny joke) and steal business ideas and use them at Anthropic?

Feels like the dirty secret of AI services is, every possible use case violates the terms, and we just have to accept we’re using something their legal team told us not to use? How is that logically consistent? Any safety concerns? This doesn’t seem like a law Asimov would appreciate.

It would be cool if the set of allowed use cases wasn’t empty. That might make Anthropic seem more intelligent

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ethan_smith ◴[01 Jul 25 01:25 UTC] No.44429697[source]▶
Anthropic's terms typically restrict training competing AI models with their outputs, not building standard applications or websites that simply use their API as a tool.
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1. _flux ◴[01 Jul 25 08:52 UTC] No.44431937[source]▶
The TOS says (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms):

You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways:

2. To develop any products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models or resell the Services.

Let's say you've used Anthropic's model to generate open source software and then some 3rd party trains their model on that. Have you now helped another person to use their service in a way that violates the terms?

I suppose that's pretty far-fetched, though, unless you have some interaction with the party doing the training. Sometimes you might, though: perhaps some company provides services to train a model on exactly your code base, and then provide similar service as Anthropic does for your code base, thus being in direct competition of Antropic as well.