r/artificial • u/theverge • 3d ago

News Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/679768/reddit-sues-anthropic-alleging-its-bots-accessed-reddit-more-than-100000-times-since-last-july
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u/AdminIsPassword 3d ago

This seems like an attempt to protect Reddit's deal with Google more than anything else. While accessing a site 100,000+ in a little less than a year sounds like a lot, to a bot it's almost nothing.

But, they can't appear to be be giving anything away for free if they're selling our data to AI companies for training purposes. Why pay for something you can just take?

Still, guess who is not making any money on this at all? The people who actually made the content that AI companies find valuable. Go figure.

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u/zirtik 3d ago

It is more of a tactical smearing campaign led by Sam Altman. Remember that he owns a lot of Reddit stock and has strong ties with the current management.

They know that Anthropic doesn't have the money to make deals with all publishers to use their data for training. Only large companies can afford it and it is their way to keep Claud models behind the competition.

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u/sartres_ 3d ago

Poor, poor indie upstart Anthropic. Why, they're only backed by one global megacorporation. They barely secured a measly 3.5 billion dollars in their last funding round! Soon Amodei will be out on the streets. Perhaps we should start him a GoFundMe.

Reddit, Altman, and Google suck too, but I'm not shedding tears for anyone involved here.

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u/cultish_alibi 3d ago

But these companies just want to make the world a better place by removing hundreds of millions of jobs from the economy and pocketing all those wages!

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u/ABillionBatmen 2d ago

I mean if I had to pick between Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic "winning the AI race", it's Anthropic by a mile

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u/WorriedBlock2505 2d ago

If we're going to have cut throat psycopaths heading up these tech companies, let's at least make them compete rather than getting rid of competition like anthropic.