US EditionReddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, ‘unfair competition’
- Reddit filed a lawsuit against Anthropic for unlawfully using its data and platform, claiming a breach of contract and unfair competition.
- The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic trained its models on Reddit users' personal data without consent, causing harm to Reddit.
- Reddit seeks damages and wants Anthropic to comply with its contractual obligations, emphasizing that other AI companies respect its rules.
- Reddit described Anthropic as a 'late-blooming' AI company that ignores its regulations, contrasting it with companies like OpenAI and Google that follow licensing terms.
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Reddit sues Anthropic for using platform content to train AI
Anthropic is facing a lawsuit from Reddit, the first major tech company to take legal action against the AI startup. Reddit accuses the company of scraping posts from its site without permission to train Claude, Anthropic’s generative AI chatbot. The complaint, filed June 4 in San Francisco County, argues that Anthropic violated Reddit’s user agreement by commercially exploiting its data without a licensing deal. Anthropic allegedly ignored Redd…
Reddit’s Treasure Trove of ‘Human’ Data Sparks Tension with A.I. Companies
Reddit, the popular social media platform known for its decades of topic-specific forums, holds a treasure trove of user-generated content that A.I. companies can use to train large language models. But the platform doesn’t take kindly to having its data used without permission. In a lawsuit filed yesterday (June 4), Reddit accused A.I. company Anthropic of scraping its site’s content without authorization. Describing Anthropic as a company that…
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DNyuzContent karma catches up to Reddit in its fight with Anthropic
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman.AP Photo/Yuki IwamuraReddit sued Anthropic for allegedly scraping its content to train AI models.Reddit's business model relies on user-contributed content, without paying to the original creators.The lawsuit questions data ownership in the AI era, highlighting Reddit's own practices.In the fast-evolving world of generative AI, a new kind of arms race is underway, one that has less to do with GPUs and more to do with dat…
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