Anthropic has announced legal protections for users, following a new trend among generative AI foundation model providers selling to enterprise users. This is probably necessary, given that OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others offer user protections. However, it also highlights an important risk that generative AI users and the companies providing the core technology and products must account for: legal costs. Anthropic’s latest blog post states in part: Our Commercial Terms of Service (previously our services agreement) will enable our customers to retain ownership rights over any outputs they generate through their use of our services and protect them from copyright infringement claims.
