Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, ‘unfair competition’.

According to a complaint made in early June by Reddit, one of the world's most famous entertainment forum platforms, artificial intelligence startup Anthropic allegedly trained its AI models using the personal data of the site's users without any kind of authorization or consent. This move allegedly hurt the platform economically, as Reddit's shares allegedly closed the day of the complaint in the red by 6 percent.

Reddit has proven time and again that it is willing to collaborate with various companies specializing in AI, as evidenced by its recently announced partnership with OpenAI, and the similar agreement it also entered into with Google. From the outset, the platform has made its interest in the topic clear, making itself willing to collaborate, as long as its licensing terms were followed.

Anthropic, according to the complaint, decided to take a shortcut, violating any protocol put in place by the platform. “It believes it has the right to take whatever content it wants and use it as it wishes,” the document reads.