Reddit causes anthropic for alleged use of the data of the site to form the AI models without a correct license, according to a grievance Archived in a court of North California on Wednesday. Reddit states in the complaint that the unauthorized use by the data of the site by anthropics for commercial purposes was illegal and the startup to the Vioated Reddit the agrement user.
The cause of Reddit makes the first large technological company to legally challenge a supplier of artificial intelligence models on its training data practices, joining a litany of publishers who have sued technological companies for similar reasons.
The New York Times sued Openai and Microsoft for training on its news articles without payment or authorization. Meanwhile, Sarah Silverman and other books of books have In court, a destination for the formation of artificial intelligence models On their books without approval. Music publishers and artists also have similar sticks against audio startups, videos and generations of images, supporting improper use of their content.
“We will not tolerate entities in search of profits such as anthropic commercial exploitation of the Reddit for billions of dollars without any return for income or respect for their privacy,” said Ben Lee, Chief Legal Officer of Reddit, in a statement to Techcrunch.
Remarkable, Reddit has inking agreements with other providers of artificial intelligence models, including Open AND Googlewhich allows these companies to train artificial intelligence models on Reddit data and make the site posts appear in the respective responses of the AI chatbot. However, in the deposit, Reddit states that Opena and Google subjects to certain terms that protect the interests and privacy of its users.
Sam Altman, CEO of Openi, has a 8.7% of participation in RedditMaking him the third largest shareholder and was once a member of the company’s board of directors.
In the archive, Reddit says that it approached the anthropic and clarified that the start of the AI did not have authorization to scrape or use the Reddit content. However, Reddit Alges that Anthropic “refused to engage”.
“We do not agree with Reddit’s statements and will defend us vigorously,” said the anthropic spokesperson Danielle Ghighlieri in a station and -mail to Techcrunch.
Reddit states in his complaint that Anthropic’s scraper robots have ignored the robot.txt files of the social network, a standard that reports the automated system in order not to crawl the website. The online community platform claims that, after Anthropic said to block its robots from scraping Reddit in 2024, anthropes robots continued to scrape platform more than 100,000 times.
Reddit is asking anthropic to pay compensatory damage, as well as return for the love with which the anthropic has been enriched by scraping the Reddit content. Reddit also requires an injunction that prohibits Anthropic to continue using the Reddit content.
