Reddit, a social media site, filed a lawsuit against Anthropic on Wednesday, claiming that the artificial intelligence firm is unlawfully “scraping” millions of Reddit users’ comments in order to train its chatbot Claude.
Reddit alleges that Anthropic “intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent” and utilised automated bots to access Reddit’s material in spite of being requested not to.
In a response, Anthropic stated that it “will defend ourselves vigorously” against Reddit’s allegations. Reddit filed the complaint Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where both firms are headquartered.
“AI companies should not be allowed to scrape information and content from people without clear limitations on how they can use that data,” noted Ben Lee, Reddit’s chief legal officer, in a statement Wednesday.
Reddit has previously entered into licensing de
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