What to know

  • Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, claiming the company accessed Reddit's content more than 100,000 times without proper licensing.
  • The lawsuit seeks compensatory damages and restitution for the amount Anthropic has allegedly been enriched by scraping Reddit's content.
  • Reddit is also requesting an injunction to prohibit Anthropic from continuing to use Reddit's content for AI training.

Reddit has taken legal action against AI company Anthropic, filing a lawsuit that claims Anthropic trained its AI models on Reddit's data without paying for proper licensing. The lawsuit joins a growing trend of publishers taking similar legal action against AI companies.

According to the lawsuit, Anthropic's bots allegedly accessed Reddit's platform more than 100,000 times since July 2024. Reddit claims this unauthorized data scraping was used to train Anthropic's AI models, including its Claude chatbot.

Reddit isn't just seeking financial compensation. The company has asked the court for both compensatory damages and restitution for the amount by which Anthropic has allegedly been enriched through using Reddit's content without permission.

Additionally, Reddit wants the court to issue an injunction that would prevent Anthropic from continuing to use any of Reddit's content for AI training purposes in the future.

This case highlights the ongoing tensions between content publishers and AI companies over the use of online data for training large language models. Reddit's lawsuit is part of a larger wave of legal challenges from publishers who argue that AI companies should pay for the content they use to build their products.

The outcome of this lawsuit could have significant implications for how AI companies approach data collection and licensing agreements with content platforms in the future.

Via: theverge.com