JesusReddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July
talIn the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a “late-blooming artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,” alleging that “it is anything but.”
“This case is about the two faces of Anthropic: the public face that attempts to ingratiate itself into the consumer’s consciousness with claims of righteousness and respect for boundaries and the law, and the private face that ignores any rules that interfere with its attempts to further line its pockets.”
I mean, Reddit’s objection is that they want to sell the same data to Google to do the same training.
paraphrandI dunno, it just reads like a reddit comment to me. 🤣
NegentropicBoySo who owns the data?
They actually quite that in a real legal filing?
Jesus.
Did they ask /r/pettyrevenge to write that?
Suck shit reddit.
kingthrillgoreReddit is just mad that Anthropic didn’t pay them
The Users posted for free. They didn’t get paid. They should be publicly available for scraping
Yeah, if reddit wants to start sending all the people who made its content their fair share then by all means. Doubt they’re gonna make any attempt to do that, though.
Nah which is why I give a shit about the capitalist argument. Steal everything
I’m a reddit user, where’s my share?!?!
g0nz0li0I hope they lose this case badly.
For the concerns I have about AI and stealing others work, I want to see Reddit burn for pretending that they are all about community and connection, while actively harming their users’ experience on the platform and attempting to profit off their content.
Yeah, something about a company making billions of dollars off completely user generated content and moderation just runs me the wrong way. As much as I hate Facebook, they at least pay people to do moderation there, and regularly update their site (as shitty as it is). I dont use either anymore, and I hope they die in a pit of flames owing billions to their shareholders.
Shareholders of these companies are likely you or I, as they are so big they are significant parts of index funds purchased by retirement funds and the like
Maybe, I still hope the go belly up. My 401k isn’t worth supporting companies that spread deliberate disinformation. (Looking at you facebook). Hell, when the stock market took a nosedive over tarrifs, I pulled my entire 401k and put it into foreign investments to try to further the crash. Literally the only thing these dipsticks understand is money, and if they’re losing it, thats when they pay attention.
danA lot of people don’t realise that around 40% of the value of the S&P 500, and the majority of the Nasdaq 100 (i.e. QQQM) is big tech companies.
You could always build a portfolio that excludes companies you feel are unethical (for example, exclude oil and gas companies, exclude big tech, etc), but if you were to exclude all companies that have done something unethical then you’d probably end up with the S&P 0 (an empty list)
Maybe our quality of life, livelihood, and retirements should not be bound to for-profit corporations?
I agree, but unfortunately it’s a reality of a capitalist society that large private companies have a lot of the wealth, and so people set themselves up for retirement by owning a very tiny part of those companies.
Our retirement plans didn’t used to be tied to the stock market. So clearly there’s a way to have retirement plans that don’t tie the entire middle class to the success of every large corporation.
Well, there’s the Defined Benefit pension, however typically these pension funds then become institutional investors who seek to own shares in… you guessed it - stocks.
At least those institutional investors are at least somewhat responsive to public pressure campaigns, as the state/local comptrollers are a politically appointed position.
When you give your money to a 401k, the fund manager gets all the voting rights on the corporate board and is generally only accountable to “A reasonable rate of return”
As much as I hate Facebook, they at least pay people to do moderation there, and regularly update their site
Facebook pays content creators too (creators.facebook.com/earn-money ), including for things other than videos (like photo/image posts). Platforms like YouTube do too, but as far as I know, Reddit doesn’t.
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FizzOof owie my hemochromatosis.
pay us or we sue
Isn’t this just blackmail by reddit?
sexy_peach100.000 accesses isn’t that much, right?
Back in the day that’s about how many times I accessed reddit a week.
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grysbokThat’s hardly anything. Facebook has a bot accessing my server’s robots.txt multiple times a second.
(My robots.txt used to say “Facebook bot go away” but now I just respond 404 to any requests from the Facebook bot. Pretend I said that all technical and stuff, it’s 2 am and I ought to go to sleep.)
venusaurNot just Russia.
Israel, US, China, North Korea, India and other countries… Nuclear Lobby, Fossil Fuel Lobby and countless other industry lobbyists… Private companies advertising their products…
But have you seen Rampart?
First of all, I have not seen it. Lets focus on the Reddit lawsuit.
Reddit can forever get fucked
This is like one of those cases where I’m kind of hoping they both lose somehow. Neither party are right in this case, Reddit is trying to claim copyright over content they have no rights to, and anthropic shouldn’t be violating copyright without a licence.
But apparently you are actually allowed to violate copyright without a licence if you’re an AI company because apparently llms are the future? So I guess Reddit are going to lose, which will be funny.
Rikudou_SageYou mean Reddit, the company that would be very happy if Anthropic did the exact same thing, but paid Reddit first?
I am squarely on the reddit should lose this side.
Anthropic may be breaking copyright, but not Reddit’s copyright. Sure maybe Anthropic should be sued, but not by Reddit.
Actually this case could be a good thing. The whole question of who owns user generated content needs hashing out, because no one seems to actually know.
Obviously the logical answer would be that the people who created it own the content, but that’s never been officially decided.
Because that’s the only common sense conclusion to make, but that doesnt make rich fucks more money
The whole question of who owns user generated content needs hashing out, because no one seems to actually know.
It’s billionaires. They know. They just sometimes squable over it like two year olds. But they know. They pay lawyers to make it clear in thousand page terms of service documents.