AI ETHICS AND REGULATION
“ PIRACY IS PIRACY AND WHETHER AN INFRINGING IMAGE OR VIDEO IS MADE WITH AI OR ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS INFRINGING”
DISNEY AND UNIVERSAL’ S LAWSUIT
Dario co-founded Anthropic after serving as Vice President of Research at OpenAI.
“ I think everyone agrees the models shouldn’ t be verbatim outputting copyrighted content,” Dario said in a recent New York Times interview.“ For things that are available on the web, for publicly available, is that the training process, again, we don’ t think it’ s just hoovering up content and spitting it out – or it shouldn’ t be spitting it out.”
“ It’ s really much more like the process of how a human learns from experiences. And so, our position is that it is sufficiently transformative, and I think that the law will back this up, that this is fair use.”
Reddit alleges that Claude reproduced Reddit posts with accuracy, including content that users had subsequently deleted from the platform.
“ For its part, despite what its marketing material says, Anthropic does not care about Reddit’ s rules or users,” the company’ s lawsuit states.
“ It believes it is entitled to take whatever content it wants and use that content however it desires, with impunity.”
Reddit contends that Anthropic’ s actions violated principles of fair competition by accessing Reddit’ s data without compensation, whilst competitors paid licensing fees for similar access.
The company seeks financial damages and a court injunction preventing Anthropic from using Reddit content in future model training or development.
134 August 2025