"Generated with Claude Fable" free templates were scraped from paid ones, creator says: "~200 relicensed as MIT"
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A free collection of website templates promoted as "every single one generated with Claude Fable 5" was copied from paid templates, according to one of the original authors.
Michael Andreuzza, who runs the template store Lexington Themes, wrote on X on Nov. 11 that the repo of 50-plus templates actually contains about 200 paid templates from 10 vendors, 45 of them his, "scraped from our live demos, relicensed as MIT in his name." He said he filed a DMCA notice with GitHub. The post drew about 2,400 likes.
The repo owner replied that he had not copied a single paid template's source code, and had used public preview links as visual references and asked AI to recreate similar designs. Andreuzza answered that 64 of his image files sit in the repo byte for byte, "same Astro build hashes in the filenames," and named specific files.
Andreuzza also said the repo owner gave a talk at a Microsoft Reactor office titled "Steal it. Ship it." GitHub has not yet acted on the notice.
“This bitch ass looser "spent thousands of dollars building" a repo of 50+ templates "every single one generated with Claude Fable 5". - He didn't.”
