Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, alleging that it used users' posts without consent to train its AI models. This marks a significant legal move, as it's the first lawsuit of its kind by a major tech firm against an AI startup regarding training data. Reddit's legal team claims the data usage breaches their user agreement, with Reddit executives asserting their commitment to protect user privacy and content rights. Despite a denial from Anthropic, the dispute highlights ongoing tensions over data usage in AI development, as other companies like Google and OpenAI have engaged in formal agreements with Reddit for similar purposes.
In the 42-page complaint, Reddit claimed that Anthropic violated Reddit's user agreement by using the site's data for commercial purposes. Anthropic has allegedly been training its AI models on posts made by Reddit users without their consent.
According to TechCrunch, this lawsuit marks the first time a big tech company has legally challenged an AI startup over the material it uses to train AI models.
Reddit's chief legal officer Ben Lee stated, 'We will not tolerate profit-seeking entities like Anthropic commercially exploiting Reddit content for billions of dollars without any return for redditors or respect for their privacy.'
In July 2024, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman called out Anthropic, Microsoft, and Perplexity for unauthorizedly scraping the site for training data, asserting that Anthropic had crawled the site over 100,000 times.
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