Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegal Data Use

We got another reminder of this conundrum this week, when Reddit sued Anthropic over its use of Redditors’ posts in its training data. Reddit’s lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, accuses the Amazon-backed AI company of breaching its user agreement. “As far back as December 2021…Anthropic was already—without authorization and in direct violation of Reddit’s User Agreement—training Claude on Reddit users” posts, the lawsuit claims. Reddit has sought to insulate itself from getting ripped off by developing contracts with AI companies that clearly stipulate an exchange of content for money. AI companies with the resources will be able to buy access to large amounts of data to fuel their AI habits.