AI ETHICS AND REGULATION
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Reddit’ s lawsuit against Anthropic Anthropic has faced multiple lawsuits over its AI training data, including a 2023 suit by music publishers alleging unauthorised use of song lyrics and an August 2024 class action from authors claiming their copyrighted books were used without permission to train the company’ s models.
Now, Reddit has filed its lawsuit in California state court, claiming Anthropic made more than 100,000 unauthorised requests to Reddit’ s servers to collect data from user posts, comments and other content without permission.
The allegations suggest this activity occurred despite Anthropic’ s public statements that it had ceased such practices.
The complaint alleges that Anthropic circumvented Reddit’ s robots. txt file, a standard web protocol that instructs automated systems which parts of a website they should not access.
Reddit has established licensing agreements with major technology firms including OpenAI and Alphabet, incorporating provisions for content usage, privacy safeguards and data deletion procedures.
Yet Reddit claims Anthropic ignored these restrictions and violated its terms of service by collecting user content without authorisation.
The case also references a 2021 research paper co-authored by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, which identified Reddit as a valuable source of training data for language models( LMs).
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