Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegal Data Use

It’s well known that the AI industry rests on shaky legal ground. Companies like OpenAI have built their multi-billion-dollar businesses on the backs of vast tranches of training data, much of which is sourced from copyrighted content. The creators of that content know they’re being ripped off and, more and more, it’s leading to lawsuits. We got another reminder of this conundrum this week, when Reddit sued Anthropic over its use of Redditors’ posts in its training data. Reddit’s lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, accuses the Amazon-backed AI company of breaching its user agreement. “As far back as December 2021…Anthropic was already—without authorization and in direct violation of Reddit’s User Agreement—training Claude on Reddit users” posts, the lawsuit claims. Anthropic, whose flagship product is the AI chatbot Claude, has tried to position itself as the “good guy” of the AI industry—a company that plays by the rules and advances AI frameworks that are considerate of safety and ... Read full article.