Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping user data to train AI

Reddit Antarbur takes the court, accusing the AI ​​of withdrawing the user’s content from the platform without permission and using it to train Claud AI. The lawsuit, which was filed in the California State Court, claims that the Antarbur has submitted more than 100,000 unauthorized requests to Redit’s servers, even after it publicly said it had stopped.

The case was built on Reddit’s claim that Antarubor ignored both technical restrictions and their service conditions. According to the complaint, renewable protection such as the site’s Robots.txt file has been exceeded, which is supposed to prevent automatic abrasion. Reddit is also accused of the month of Athlubur of violating the user’s privacy by collecting and using personal posts – including deleted content – for commercial purposes.

Reddit says it provides organized access to its data through licensing agreements with companies such as Openai and Google. These deals include conditions on content use, privacy protection, and data deletion. According to the platform, Antarubor refused to follow up on an official agreement. Instead, he ridiculed the site directly, avoiding licensing fees and overcoming the user’s protection in this process.

The lawsuit sheds light on a 2021 research paper co -authored by the CEO of Anthropor Dario Amoudi, which referred to Redit as a rich source of training data for language models. Reddit also included examples as Claude seemed to reproduce approximately Reddit posts for the word, even echoing the posts deleted by users. The company says that the company appears to have failed to put handrails in place to respect the user’s privacy or content removal.

Reddit seeks to obtain financial damage and order the court that would prevent anthropology from using Reddit content in future versions of their models.

Antarubor, claiming that she did not agree to claims and plans to defend themselves. However, this is not the first time that the company has been subjected to legal pressure on how to collect training data.

In August 2024, a group of authors filed a collective lawsuit accusing Anthropor of of using their copyright work without permission. Pray that the company trained its models on books and other written materials without its approval, then requested compensation to use its content.

A similar case from October 2023 included a group of international music and other publishers. They filed a lawsuit against Antarubor on the allegations that Chatbot was reproducing the lyrics for copyright. Music companies argued that this use violated intellectual property rights and asked the court to prevent further use of their words.

Unlike these lawsuits, the Reddit case does not focus on copyright. Instead, it focuses on violating the contract and unfair competition. Reddit’s argument is that the data taken from its location is not only public – it is governed by the terms that the Antarbur ignored intentionally. This discrimination may make the state important for other platforms that host the user’s content but want to control how they are used in artificial intelligence systems.

Redait also accuses Anthropor of misleading the audience. The lawsuit refers to the general data of Anthrobur, asking that it respects the rules of abstraction and values ​​the privacy of the user, which Radit says contradict the company’s actions.

“For its part, despite what its marketing materials say, Antarbur does not care about the rules of Redit or Redit’s users,” the lawsuit says. “She believes that she is entitled to take any content he wants and uses this content, but he wants, with impunity.”

After filing the lawsuit, the Reddit shares rose nearly 67 %, a sign that investors supported this step. The result of the case can be determined by how companies balance open internet content, user rights and content owners.

Since more artificial intelligence companies depend on large amounts of data online, legal and moral questions about ignoring ignoring are more difficult to ignore them. The Reddit case adds to the growing list of lawsuits that constitute how this next wave is developed from the development of artificial intelligence.

(Photo by Brett Jordan)

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