Reddit sues AI company for allegedly 'scraping' user comments to train chatbot

Social media level Reddit has sued the artificial quality institution Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to bid its chatbot Claude

Social media level Reddit has sued the artificial quality institution Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally "scraping" the comments of Reddit users to bid its chatbot Claude.

Reddit claims that Anthropic has utilized automated bots to entree Reddit's contented contempt being asked not to bash so, and “intentionally trained connected the idiosyncratic information of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent.”

Anthropic didn’t instantly instrumentality a petition for remark Wednesday. Reddit filed the suit Wednesday successful California Superior Court successful San Francisco, wherever some companies are based.

“AI companies should not beryllium allowed to scrape accusation and contented from radical without wide limitations connected however they tin usage that data,” said Ben Lee, Reddit's main ineligible officer, successful a connection Wednesday.

Reddit has previously entered licensing agreements with Google, OpenAI and different companies to alteration them to bid their AI systems connected Reddit commentary.

Those agreements “enable america to enforce meaningful protections for our users, including the close to delete your content, idiosyncratic privateness protections, and preventing users from being spammed utilizing this content,” Lee said.

Anthropic was formed by erstwhile OpenAI executives successful 2021 and its flagship Claude chatbot remains a cardinal rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Much similar different AI companies, it's relied heavy connected websites specified arsenic Wikipedia and Reddit that are afloat of affluent sources of written materials to thatch an AI adjunct the patterns of quality connection

In a 2021 insubstantial co-authored by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — cited successful the suit — researchers astatine the institution identified the subreddits, oregon subject-matter forums, that contained the highest prime data, specified arsenic those focused connected gardening, past oregon thoughts radical person successful the shower.

Anthropic successful 2023 argued successful a missive to the U.S. Copyright Office that the "way Claude was trained qualifies arsenic a quintessentially lawful usage of materials,” by making copies of accusation to execute a statistical investigation of a ample assemblage of data.

But Reddit's suit is antithetic from others brought against AI companies due to the fact that it doesn’t allege copyright infringement. Instead, it focuses connected the alleged breach of Reddit's presumption of use, and the unfair competition, it says, was created.

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