Reddit has filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging illegal scraping of user comments to train its chatbot, Claude. According to Reddit, Anthropic used automated bots to access content without permission and trained on personal user data without consent. The lawsuit emphasizes the need for regulations that prevent AI companies from scraping data improperly. Despite previous licensing agreements that allowed other companies to use Reddit's data lawfully, this case highlights concerns over user privacy and data ownership in the AI development landscape.
AI companies should not be allowed to scrape information and content from people without clear limitations on how they can use that data, said Ben Lee, Reddit's chief legal officer.
Reddit has previously entered licensing agreements with Google, OpenAI and other companies to enable them to train their AI systems on Reddit commentary, specifically to enforce meaningful protections for users.
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