Reddit says Anthropic used his community to train AI without permission, rather mint

The Social Media Platform Reddit launched legal proceedings against Anthropic, artificial intelligence business, and accused the firm of the illegal scrap-generated content to train his AI assistant, Claude. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in the Superior Court in California in San Francisco, claims that Anthropic used automatic instruments to withdraw the comments of Reddit users without permission, despite being explicitly told not to do so. According to Reddit, this content was then used to train the Claude Chatbot, without the consent of the user or proper licensing. You may be interested in “AI businesses should not be allowed to scrape the information and content of people without having clear restrictions on how to use the data,” said Ben Lee, Chief Law Officer of Reddit. He emphasizes the platform’s dedication to protecting his community, which generates large amounts of public discourse every day. Reddit, who became public last year, previously entered into licensing agreements with AI developers such as Openai and Google. According to the company, it is possible that these arrangements enable transparent and legal use of data, while user protection such as the removal of content and spam prevention is made possible. “These partnerships allow us to enforce meaningful precautions for our users,” Lee added, underlining the contrast between authorized data access and the alleged misconduct of Anthropic. Anthropic, who was founded by former Openai drivers in 2021 and now heavily supported by Amazon, denies the allegations. “We do not agree with the demands of Reddit and will defend us powerfully,” the company said in a brief statement. The legal complaint takes another route of other recent cases involving AI firms. Rather than claiming copyright infringement, as seen in lawsuits of music publishers targeting Claude for replicating sanglyrics, Reddit’s filing on contract breach and unfair competition. Specifically, it accuses Anthropic of violating Reddit’s conditions of employment by scraping data without a proper license. The lawsuit cites a 2021 research article that co-author of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in which Reddit’s sub-forums were explicitly mentioned as sources of high quality for the training of AI systems. Forums that cover topics such as gardening, history and personal advice are especially valuable for modeling human language patterns. Anthropic previously claimed, among other things, in a letter of 2023 to the US Copyright Office, that the methods of training Claude constitute legal use, describing it as a form of statistical analysis rather than reproducing the content. (With inputs of AP)