Reddit sued Anthropic in San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday, claiming that the open rival had accessed its platform more than 100,000 times since July 2024, after which Anthropic allegedly said that he had stopped his boats from doing so.
In filing, Reddet has called Anthropic a “late -opening artificial intelligence (‘AI’ company that calls itself a white night of the AI industry,” it is alleged that “it is anything.”
“The matter is about the two faces of the anthropic: the public face that tries to include itself in consumer consciousness with righteousness and respect for the law and the law, and the private face that neglects any rules that interfere with his pocket efforts.”
Anthropic did not immediately comment.
Reddit Chief Legal Officer Ben Lee said in an email statement Stuffy The “commercial exploitation” of the Reddate content can cost billions of dollars.
“The humanity of Redt is uniquely valuable in a world that is flattened by Ai,” said Lee. “Now more than ever before, people want human dialogue with human beings. Reddate practically imagines about 20 years full of human dialogue on every topic. This conversation is nowhere else-and they are central to a language sample like Cloud.”
Reddet signed an agreement with Google in February 2024 to provide AI training data to the company. Bloomberg It was reported that Reddit signed an agreement with an unidentified company worth about $ 60 million annually.
This is not the first time when Amazon -backed AI startup, behind the popular chat boot cloud, has been sued for a copyright violation.
Last August, three authors filed a class action case against Anthropic in the Federal Court of California, alleging that the company had “stolen hundreds of thousands of copyright books and made a billion dollar business.” And in October 2023, Universal Music filed a case against Anthropic in a Tennessee Federal Court in the Tennessee Federal Court for “systematic and widespread violation of the lyrics of their copyright songs.”
This is part of the growing trend of publishers and content creators who prosecute AI companies for alleged copyright violations. Chat GPT creator, Openi has been an important part of the conversation, by which a high -level sue New York TimesClass action case by a group of authors, including George RR Martin, and a case of newspaper publishers New York Daily News And Chicago Tribion. And a bunch of publishers Stuffy Parent Company Vox Media has sued the AI company Koheer for violating.
