Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegal Data Use

It is well known that the AI ​​industry is based on fragile legal ground. Companies and Openai have built their companies of several billion dollars on the back of large tranches of training data, a large part of which comes from content protected by copyright. The creators of this content know that they are scammed and, more and more, this leads to prosecution. We received another reminder of this enigma this week, when Reddit continued Anthropic on its use of Redditors messages in its training data.

Reddit trialWho was filed on Wednesday, accused the company supported by Amazon to violate its user agreement. “From December 2021 … Anthropic was already – without authorization and in direct violation of the Reddit User Agreement – Claude’s training on Reddit users,” said the trial.

Anthropic, whose flagship product is the chatbot ai Claudetried to position himself as the “Good“IA industry – a company that plays according to the rules and advances life executives who are attentive in terms of security and ethical considerations. But, despite its public relations “White Knight”, the company has met several times legal problems This throws his so-called “ethical” companies in question. This week’s dispute is another reminder.

The anthropogenic trial of unjustly enriched while breaking the user contract of the platform. The costume claims that The Bots of the company of AI have visited its website more than 100,000 times since 2024.

“This affair concerns the two faces of the anthropic: the public face which tries to introduce itself in consumer consciousness with claims of justice and respect for borders and law, and the private face which ignores all the rules which interfere with its attempts to danger its pockets”, indicates the dispute. He adds that Anthropic “continues to admit publicly that it forms its AL technologies on the Reddit content”.

When he was contacted to comment on Gizmodo, an anthropogenic spokesperson provided the following statement: “We do not agree with Reddit’s claims and we defend ourselves vigorously.”

The war on the use of AI content has become one of the most important dilemmas in industry. The platforms and the artists know that their content is during the pestle for the good of AI, and they shoot on the trial machine to retaliate. At this point, Openai was prosecuted by so many different people and institutions that it is difficult to follow all this – everyone Sarah Silverman,, Tha I feel coats,, George RR Martin and Jonathan Franzen, At Center for Investigative Reporting,, InterceptionA Variety of newspapers (including the Denver Post and the Chicago Tribune), and Some youtubers. The New York Times is currently prosecute On similar reasons.

Reddit has sought to be ripped off by developing contracts with AI companies that clearly stipulate an exchange of content for money. Last February, Reddit concluded an agreement With Google which allowed the technology giant to use the content of its platform as an AI fodder, as long as the company has coughing $ 60 million per year. Shortly after, A similar agreement was concluded With OpenAi. Anthropic does not seem to have obtained the memo, but he will surely do it now. More and more, it seems that it is the new model of the AI ​​industry: to quote one of my favorite television programs, you are will have to pay the troll toll If you don’t want to be pounded by a lawsuit. This is obviously a situation that promotes large companies. AI companies with resources will be able to buy access to large amounts of data to feed their AI habits. Smaller and less resources companies will have shit.