Reddit's Lawsuit against Anthropic for Data-Scraping Is Moving Forward in Court

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Full story:
https://mashable.com/tech/judge-allows-most-of-reddit-lawsuit-against-anthropic-proceed

So it appears Reddit is going hard against any company that tries to scrape data without 'their' permission masked under the ideaology of it not being their users' permissions eventhough they say explicity you dont own the account in the TOA and constantly ban people without reason, keeping their account and data lol


Get your money while you can people. The Reddtanic is going down.
 
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Outcome will be interesting for sure, considering pretty much all major language models grab like 60%+ of their information straight off of Reddit.
 
bigvision said:
Pretty sure its legal to web scrape though. i remember faintly something similar happened but with linkedin and they lost in court
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I didn’t know this, but I feel like OpenAI should’ve been sued for the same thing before Anthropic. Although I doubt anything will actually come of it. :D
 
So, reddit can sell the user data to Google.
But Athropic cannot scrape it because reddit couldn't profit from it.
Hypocrites!
 
Kinda crazy that the lawsuit is actually moving forward Reddit clearly isn’t messing around with companies using their data anymore. Really curious how this one ends.
 
GNews said:
Full story:
https://mashable.com/tech/judge-allows-most-of-reddit-lawsuit-against-anthropic-proceed

So it appears Reddit is going hard against any company that tries to scrape data without 'their' permission masked under the ideaology of it not being their users' permissions eventhough they say explicity you dont own the account in the TOA and constantly ban people without reason, keeping their account and data lol


Get your money while you can people. The Reddtanic is going down.
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platforms are getting much stricter about data scraping and legal actions are making it harder to collect content. as rules change, automated systems have to adapt to these tighter access controls.
 
The new robots.txt might need one extra line: Disallow: billion-dollar AI companies.
 
GroByTech said:
The new robots.txt might need one extra line: Disallow: billion-dollar AI companies.
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They wouldn't follow the disallow rule. These are the companies that scraped hundreds of thousands of pirated books from places like Zlibrary to train their AI.
They have no ethics.
 
neo said:
They wouldn't follow the disallow rule. These are the companies that scraped hundreds of thousands of pirated books from places like Zlibrary to train their AI.
They have no ethics.
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Lol remember wheN information was free at the library?
 
GNews said:
Lol remember wheN information was free at the library?
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Libraries purchased those books. Or at least the original authors used to get the credit.
What the AI companies are doing is blatant theft.
 
This will further make AI business less profitable. But I don't think something serious will come out of this case.
 
Reddit is ripping off its community that creates the data it so jealously protects.

They have to protect the data because they sold it to OpenAI in a billion dollar agreement. They stopped allowing APIs to access their data which killed all the third-party reddit clients.
 
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