{"id":24547,"date":"2025-06-05T17:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/reddit-takes-legal-action-against-ai-startup-anthropic\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:55:14","slug":"reddit-takes-legal-action-against-ai-startup-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/reddit-takes-legal-action-against-ai-startup-anthropic\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Takes Legal Action Against AI Startup Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reddit has filed a lawsuit<\/a> against AI startup Anthropic, alleging the company used its site data to train models without obtaining the necessary licensing agreement.<\/p>\n

The company claims that the commercial use of its information contradicts the social platform’s user agreement and constitutes a legal violation.<\/p>\n

Sam Altman is one of Reddit’s largest shareholders\u2014he invested<\/a> in the company back in 2014 and owns<\/a> 8.7% of the shares. The head of OpenAI is the third-largest shareholder after Advance and Tencent.<\/p>\n

Reddit is the first among tech giants to legally challenge AI developers over the training of neural networks. Similar legal disputes have occurred previously.<\/p>\n

The New York Times filed a lawsuit<\/a> against OpenAI and Microsoft for setting up AI models based on its articles without payment or permission. A similar suit against Meta was filed<\/a> by writers Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey, claiming the company used their books to train a language model, infringing copyright.<\/p>\n

In May 2024, eight daily newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital filed a lawsuit<\/a> against OpenAI and Microsoft. They accused them of illegally using “millions of articles” to train AI products without permission.<\/p>\n

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“We will not tolerate profit-driven companies like Anthropic commercially exploiting Reddit content for billions in revenue without giving anything back to platform users and respecting their privacy,” stated<\/a> Reddit’s chief legal officer Ben Lee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notably, Reddit has struck deals with other AI model providers, including OpenAI<\/a> and Google<\/a>. They are permitted to train neural networks on the platform’s data. It is claimed that the agreement ensures the protection of user interests and privacy.<\/p>\n

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“We disagree with Reddit’s claims and will vigorously defend ourselves,” commented Anthropic representative Daniel Giglieri.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In April 2023, it was revealed that Reddit aimed to start charging for access to its API<\/span> from companies using it to collect data for training large language models.<\/p>\n