Reddit sued Anthropic on Wednesday in San Francisco superior courtroom, claiming that the OpenAI rival had accessed its platform greater than 100,000 occasions since July 2024, after Anthropic allegedly mentioned it had blocked its bots from doing so.
Within the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a “late-blooming synthetic intelligence (‘AI’) firm that payments itself because the white knight of the AI business,” alleging that “it’s something however.”
“This case is concerning the two faces of Anthropic: the general public face that makes an attempt to ingratiate itself into the patron’s consciousness with claims of righteousness and respect for boundaries and the regulation, and the personal face that ignores any guidelines that intervene with its makes an attempt to additional line its pockets.”
Anthropic didn’t instantly present a remark.
Ben Lee, Reddit’s chief authorized officer, mentioned in an emailed assertion to The Verge that Anthropic’s “industrial exploitation” of Reddit content material might be value billions of {dollars}.
“Reddit’s humanity is uniquely worthwhile in a world flattened by AI,“ Lee mentioned. ”Now greater than ever, persons are looking for genuine human-to-human dialog. Reddit hosts almost 20 years of wealthy, human dialogue on nearly each matter possible. These conversations don’t occur anyplace else—they usually’re central to coaching language fashions like Claude.”
Reddit inked a cope with Google in February 2024 to offer AI coaching knowledge to the corporate. Bloomberg reported on the time that Reddit had signed a cope with an unnamed firm value about $60 million a 12 months.
It’s not the primary time the Amazon-backed AI startup, which is behind the favored chatbot Claude, has been sued over alleged copyright infringement.
Final August, three authors filed a class-action lawsuit in California federal courtroom towards Anthropic, alleging in a filing that the corporate had “constructed a multibillion-dollar enterprise by stealing lots of of hundreds of copyrighted books.” And in October 2023, Common Music sued Anthropic in a Tennessee federal courtroom over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted music lyrics.”
It’s a part of an growing development of publishers and content material creators suing AI firms over alleged copyright infringement. OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, has been a key a part of that dialog, following a high-profile lawsuit from The New York Instances, a class-action lawsuit from a bunch of authors together with George R.R. Martin, and a lawsuit from the publishers of newspapers together with The New York Day by day Information and The Chicago Tribune.