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Reddit litigate Artificial intelligence The startup anthropic for what it calls the contract violation and participates in “illegal and unfair business acts” using the platform and data of the social media company without powers.
The lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday claims that anthropic training is engaged in its models according to Reddit users without receiving their consent. Reddit claims that this has damaged the unauthorized commercial use of its content.
On Wednesday, Reddit shares were poured by more than 7%, reaching their maximum the day after the trial was announced.
The company opened the complaint, calling an anthropic “company that flourishes”, which “considers itself a white knight of the II industry”. Reddit follows, saying “It’s all but”.
“For its part, despite what its marketing material says, the anthropic does not care about the rules and users of the Reddit: he considers
I am unpunished, ”the submission reads.
In an e -mail statement, an anthropic press -secretary said, “We disagree with the requirements of the Reddit and will actively defend ourselves.”
Ever since the Generative AI BOOM began with the launch of the Chatgpt Openai at the end of 2022, Reddit spoke at the forefront of the conversation. Its 20-year-old site is filled with information created by the user about hundreds of thousands of topics, and became the main source of training for major AI models, including anthropic Claude.
Redit announced partnership With Openai in May, this will allow the company to train its AI models on Reddit content. The company has a similar agreement with Google.
In the trial, Reddit stated that “other giants in the II space understand and respect the Reddit rules.” He called Openai and Google as companies that “allow us to use publicly available Reddit content, but only after agreeing to the Reddit licensing terms” by protecting users’ privacy.
Openai CEO Sam Altman is a former board member and the main shareholder in Reddit, and the share now costs more than $ 1 billion.
In March anthropic was rated in 61.5 billion dollars In the financing round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and including participation in Salesforce Ventures and Cisco Investments. A company founded in 2021. Former Amazon.
Reddit spent IPO in 2024 and now has a market cap of about $ 22 billion.
Reddit says it has set the rules that dictate as its data can be used, which the company says that the company is “clearly remembered” in the Reddit user agreement.
“While Reddit has always been the mind that the community should be open to all people seeking communications and community, it has never allowed its platform and countless communities on it at home to assign commercial subjects that sought to create billions and offering anything mutually in response and its users.”
Reditus said that the purpose of the lawsuit is to find losses and make the anthropic fulfill his contractual and legal obligations. This asks for a jury.
