Social media platform Reddit sues humanity, an artificial intelligence company, claiming it is illegally “scraping” Reddit users' comments to train Chatbot Claude.
Reddit claims that humanity has accessed content on social networks and was “deliberately trained in the personal data of Reddit users without requesting consent,” despite the fact that humanity is being asked not to do so.
Humanity did not immediately return a request for comment. The claim was filed Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco.
“AI companies should not be allowed to rub information or content from people without any clear restrictions on how they can use that data,” Reddit Chief Justice Officer Ben Lee said in a statement Wednesday.
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Reddit previously signed license agreements with Google, Openai and other companies to allow Reddit commentary to train AI systems. The massive amount of text generated by Reddit's daily active users is involved in creating many large-scale language models of AI, the type that underpins ChatGpt, Claude and more.
These agreements “have enabled us to implement meaningful protections for users, including the content, the right to remove your privacy protections, and the right to prevent users from being spamed using this content,” Lee said.
