Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site's data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday.

In a 2021 paper co-authored by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — cited in the lawsuit — researchers at the company identified the subreddits, or subject-matter forums, that contained the highest ...

The lawsuit seeks unspecified restitution and punitive damages, and an injunction prohibiting Anthropic from using Reddit content for commercial purposes. Anthropic introduced its newest Claude models ...

Anthropic has not commented publicly on the lawsuit or Reddit’s claims. However, Reddit’s public message boards have long been at the center of the debate over content used by AI companies ...

It also follows the lawsuit Reddit filed against Anthropic last month, claiming that the AI company’s bots had accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July, after Anthropic had said ...

FILE - The Anthropic website and mobile phone app are shown in this photo, in New York, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a ...

Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site's data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday ...

But the lawsuit filed last year alleged that Anthropic’s actions “have made a mockery of its lofty goals” by building its AI product on pirated writings. Anthropic said Tuesday it was pleased that the ...

Reddit claims in its complaint that Anthropic's scraper bots ignored the social network's robots.txt files, a standard that signals to automated systems not to crawl websites. The online community ...