Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data

Reddit continues Anthropic for having allegedly used site data to train AI models without appropriate license agreement, according to a complaint Placed Wednesday in a court in northern California. Reddit claims in the complaint that the use unauthorized by anthropic site data for commercial purposes has been illegal and alleys that the AI ​​startup violated the Reddit user contract.

The Reddit trial makes it the first major technological company to legally challenge an AI model supplier on its training data practices, joining a litany of publishers who have pursued technological companies on similar reasons.

The New York Times continued Openai and Microsoft for training on its press articles without payment or authorization. Meanwhile, Sarah Silverman and other book authors have Meta continued for the training of AI models On their books without approval. Music publishers and artists have also brought similar claims against audio, video and generation of IA images, alleging misuse of their content.

“We will not tolerate the entities looking for profit as anthropic commercially exploiting the Reddit content for billions of dollars without any feen for redditors or respect for their privacy,” said Ben Lee, legal director of Reddit, in a statement at Techcrunch.

In particular, Reddit has signed agreements with other providers of AI models, in particular OPENAI And Googlewhich allow these companies to train AI models on Reddit data and that the articles on the site appear in the responses of their respective AI chatbots. However, in the file, Reddit says that he submits Openai and Google in certain terms that protect the interests and confidentiality of its users.

Sam Altman, the CEO of Openai, has a 8.7% participation in Redditmaking him the third shareholder, and was once a member of the company’s board of directors.

In the file, Reddit says that he approached Anthropic and said that the AI ​​Startup was not allowed to scratch or use the content of Reddit. However, Reddit alleys that Anthropic “refused to commit”.

Anthropic did not immediately provide a comment when it is reached by Techcrunch.

Reddit claims that in his complaint, anthropic scratch robots have ignored the Robots.TXT files of the social network, a standard that points out to automated systems so as not to make websites. As an additional proof that Anthropic trained on the data from Reddit, Reddit alleys that the Chatbot AI of Anthropic, Claude, often refers to Reddit communities and subjects on Reddit.

Reddit asks Anthropic to pay compensatory damages, as well as a return for the amount by which Anthropic was enriched by the scratching of the content of Reddit. Reddit also asks an injunction prohibiting Anthropic from continuing to use Reddit content.