Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July
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Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, alleging the company used robots to access its platform more than 100,000 times since July 2024, in what it calls a “massive, commercial exploitation of Reddit content for profit”.
Last year, three authors and Universal Music filed separate lawsuits against Anthropic for copyright infringement, with the authors claiming the company had “stolen” hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books.
The AI firm, which created popular chatbot Claude, has yet to comment on the latest lawsuit.
Reddit’s legal officer Ben Lee said Anthiptic’s use of its content could be worth “billions of dollars” and called the social media platform’s conversations “unique” and “nearly 20 years of rich, human discussion on every topic imaginable”.
Many publishers and content creators are currently suing AI companies over alleged copyright infringement, including the creators of ChatGPT and its parent company OpenAI.