Stanford piracy case judge is named Alsup, and yes it sounds like AI slop
amasad · x · 2026-10-28
- Replit CEO Amjad Masad joked that the judge in the Stanford piracy case against Anthropic is named Alsup—which sounds suspiciously like "AI slop" when said fast.
- The attached Stanford Daily screenshot shows Judge Alsup blocked pirated books for AI training while ruling that legally acquired books used to train Claude were fair use, comparing AI training to how humans read and internalize works.
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