Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.
I honestly think they have zero case here. The article just says stuff about reddit claiming that antrhopic doesn’t have reddit users’ consent and something about reddit being a le to defend their users.
However U.S. law puts the copyright in the hands of the creator of it, NOT Reddit. I guess Reddit can cut IPs off, but I really don’t think they have a tort here.
However U.S. law puts the copyright in the hands of the creator of it, NOT Reddit.
Users give Reddit a license to handle and publish the comments under their terms. I don’t remember the specific terms. It may allow Reddit to pursue this, specifically when the content is being consumed from Reddit.
I honestly think they have zero case here. The article just says stuff about reddit claiming that antrhopic doesn’t have reddit users’ consent and something about reddit being a le to defend their users.
However U.S. law puts the copyright in the hands of the creator of it, NOT Reddit. I guess Reddit can cut IPs off, but I really don’t think they have a tort here.
Users give Reddit a license to handle and publish the comments under their terms. I don’t remember the specific terms. It may allow Reddit to pursue this, specifically when the content is being consumed from Reddit.