It’s the second such lawsuit from Reddit since it sued another major AI company, Anthropic, in June.
But the lawsuit filed Wednesday is different in the way that it confronts not just an AI company but the lesser-known services the AI industry relies on to acquire online writings needed to train AI chatbots.
“Scrapers bypass technological protections to steal data, then sell it to clients hungry for training material. Reddit is a prime target because it’s one of the largest and most dynamic collections of human conversation ever created,” said Ben Lee, Reddit’s chief legal officer, in a statement Wednesday.
Reddit themselves stole something that they didn’t create and only questionably have rights to, which is the content of their users.
Reddit didn’t make reddit. Reddit users paid the server costs for over a decade. Reddit users built and managed every single community. Adding to that, reddit is and always has been trash, especially from a software perspective. Reddit barely played a role in building reddit.