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Can I just sell the outputs to someone with no contractual relation with Anthropic, therefore not bound by their TOS?

"Our Terms do not allow the use of Outputs to train models that are competitive with Anthropic's own. It is also a violation of our Terms to support a third party's attempt to do the same."

So it would be supporting third party's attempts...

Then again. I suppose lot of scrapping could happen by accident and scrappers might ignore such files as allowable-use-cases-for-site-content-must-followed.txt instructing against use in training.

If such is ignored wouldn't be our fault right?

Isn’t this based in contract law? The terms are between the user and Anthropic, no? If a person chooses to open source their convos, they are in violation? on what grounds?

No, they would not be in violation. And an independent third party can pick them up and train with them. But you are not allowed to "support" that third party, otherwise you violate the ToS.

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