Social media platform Reddit has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of illegally extracting millions of user comments to train its chatbot Claude without permission or compensation.
The lawsuit in a California court is the latest front in a growing battle between content providers and artificial intelligence companies over the use of data to train increasingly sophisticated language models that are at the heart of the generative artificial intelligence revolution.
Anthropic, valued at $61.5 billion and heavily backed by Amazon, was founded in 2021 by former executives at OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
The company, known for its chatbots and Claude AI models, positions itself on the safety and responsible development of AI.
According to the complaint, Anthropic has been training its models on content from Reddit since at least December 2021, with CEO Dario Amodei co-authoring research papers that specifically identify high-quality content for data training.
The complaint alleges that despite Anthropic's public claims that it blocked its bots' access to Reddit, the company's automated systems continued to collect data from Reddit's servers more than 100,000 times over the following months.
Reddit is seeking monetary damages and a court injunction to compel Anthropic to comply with the terms of its user agreement. The company has requested a jury trial. | BGNES, AFP