Reddit suing AI startup for stealing content

Reddit is suing AI company Anthropic for “unlawful and unfair business acts”, alleging the startup is training its models by scrapping personal data from Reddit users without consent.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, claims that Anthropic has benefitted from the unauthorised commercial use of Reddit content, in turn causing damage to the platform, and that “other giants in the AI space understand and respect Reddit’s rules.”

Reddit has licensing terms with OpenAI and Google, who “are permitted to use public Reddit content” to train its AI models in a way that protects its users’ privacy.