Reddit sued Anthropik on Wednesday in the Supreme Court in San Francisco, claiming that the OpenAI rival has gained access to its platform over 100,000 times since July 2024, after Anthropic allegedly said that he blocked his bots.
IN filingReddit calls the anthropic company “Late Blossoming Artificial Intelligence (” AI “), which exhibits as a white knight of the AI industry”, claiming that “it is nothing else.”
“This case concerns two faces of Anthropic: a public face that is trying to shake into consumer consciousness, claims of righteousness and respect for borders and law, and on a private face, which ignores all the principles that interfere in his attempts to further level their pockets.”
“We do not agree with Reddit’s claims and we will defend ourselves vigorously,” said Anthropic spokesman The Verge.
Ben Lee, Reddita legal director, said in a statement e -Mail The Verge The fact that the “commercial use” of Reddit content by Anthropijs can be worth billions of dollars.
“Reddit’s humanity is extremely valuable in a world flattened by AI,” Lee said. “Now more than ever, people are looking for an authentic conversation between people to human. Reddit organizes almost 20 years of rich, human discussion on virtually every possible topic. These conversations are not held anywhere else-and are crucial for training models of languages such as Claude.”
Reddit concluded a contract with Google in February 2024 to provide the company with AI training data. Bloomberg He informed at that time that Reddit has signed a contract with a nameless company About $ 60 million year.
This is not the first time when AI Startup supported by Amazon, which stands behind the popular Claude chatbot, was sued for alleged copyright violation.
In August last year, three authors filed a collective lawsuit at the Federal Court in California against Anthropic, alleging that the company “built a company worth many billion dollars, stealing hundreds of thousands of copyright protected books.” And in October 2023, Universal Music sued Anthropic in the Federal Court in Tennessee about “systematic and universal violation of their song -protected song texts.”
This is part of the growing trend of publishers and creators of content sued by AI about alleged infringement of copyright. Openai, creator of Chatgpt, was a key part of this conversation, after a noisy lawsuit from The Novel York TimesCollective lawsuit of a group of authors, including George RR Martin, and a lawsuit of newspaper publishers, including Novel York Daily News AND Chicago Tribune. And a group of publishers, including Condé Nast and Edge dominant company VOX Media She sued AI Cohere for violation.