Reddit Files Lawsuit Against Anthropic Over Alleged Unauthorized Data Scraping

Reddit has triggered a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence of Anthropic, accusing the company that it flows its platform and uses Reddit content without permission to train its Claude AI model.

Complaint, submitted Wednesday at the US Federal Court, he states that Anthropic violated Reddit’s user agreement and continued to access Reddit servers, including more than 100,000 times after claiming that he had stopped such activities in July 2024.

Reddit seeks compensation, restitution and court order prohibiting anthropy from the use of any data obtained from Reddit in its products, including the prevention of the company to licensed or profite any AI programs trained for Reddit content.

Decipher He contacted Anthropics for answering Reddit’s claim.

The social media giant claimed that the AI ​​companies were “two faces”, which tried to position herself in a responsible player in the AI ​​industry.

“[There’s] A public face that he tries to incorporate into consumer consciousness of claim and respect for borders and law, and a private face that neglects all the rules that interfere with his attempts to further align with his pockets, “he writes in the lawsuit.

There are wider controversy at the heart of the dispute that are large language models trained. From the debut of Openi’s Chatgpt, concerns escalated due to the use of materials protected by copyright and AI development users.

Questions that are ongoing

Several lawsuits have already filed organizations, including the case that has launched New York Times Against Openi and Microsoft 2023. Other prosecutors include visual artists, authors and record labels who claim that their work has been used without approval.

The anthrop is too turned Another lawsuit regarding the alleged use of songs protected by copyright, as well as another from a group of authors who said the company used the pirate versions of its books as training materials.

The tension spilled into the cultural arena, and the artists expressed anger for the imitation of their styles that were generated.

Earlier this year, madness for replicating The artistic style of the popular Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli has caused concern about copyright breach and artists who have lost to AI programs dressed in their own work.

To a submission to the British Parliament last year, Openii admit Using the contents protected by copyright in the training, claiming that it would be “impossible” without it develop leading systems. The company claims that such practices are legal.

Proposal last month in the UK soothe Copyright Law and allow the use of materials protected by the copyright for the training of LLMS and a fire of distinguished artists, including Elton John.

Despite its protests due to the protection of its users, Reddit itself, it is not a bit wrong with the use of user content for LLM training, as long as Reddit compensates.

He has achieved his own licensing offers with companies such as Openi, Google, Sprinkelr and Cision to allow access to its content for training purposes.

Edited Sebastian Sinclair