Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot
Social media platform claims firm used bots to access content, without requesting consent, to train Claude
The social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.
Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access the social network’s content despite being asked not to do so, and “intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent”.
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