The list of cases against AI companies is increasing: Reditte has joined a suit against anthropic.
On Wednesday, the company filed Complaint California states that anthropic – the developer of the cloud – ignores the robot exclusion protocol (representative), or robots. Research suggests that other AI companies are also engaged in this exercise: In March, Columbia’s Tow Center found that many chatbots, including Perplexity, can still recover the articles of publishers who blocked their cruel using the representative.
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The complaint stated that “anthropic is actually deliberately trained on personal data of Reddit users, which is ever requested for their consent,” who is a violation of Reddit’s user privacy agreement. In July 2024, when Redit publicly criticized anthropic for misuse of its content, the complaint continues, “Antropic’s bots continued to hit the Redit’s server more than 100,000 times”. Despite emphasizing that it stressed that it stopped its bots from crawling.
The lawsuit is the latest in the ongoing struggle between sites that make and host – which include users forums such as publishers, news organizations and reddit – and AI companies that consider to be to use that material as training data. In late 2023, the New York Times became the first publisher Case Openai and Microsoft To use its content to train your models without permission or payment. In April, Zif Davis, the original company of this publication, OpenaiI filed a case for copyright violationDespite being blocked citing the same examples as the AI company, Ziff Davis to crawl. Writers and Creative have also filed a case on Openai and Meta on a similar basis.
The set of Reddit here is that it is also a tech company, which is contrary to the publishers behind the cases before this one. Reddit has licensing agreements with Openai and Google,
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Other publishers, including Dotdash Meredith, financial TimesAnd this APA separate approach is taken, consistently entering licensing agreements with AI companies, which allow them to reach some of their or all content in exchange for internal AI tools and preferential citation placements in chatbot reactions. However, research suggests that chatbott still struggles to accurately quote the stories of the publishers and stay in their favor, meaning that it is still not clear whether those benefits are being felt.
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