Reddit’s Treasure Trove of ‘Human’ Data Sparks Tension with A.I. Companies

Reddit, the popular social media platform known for its decades of topic-specific forums, holds a treasure trove of user-generated content that A.I. companies can use to train large language models. But the platform doesn’t take kindly to having its data used without permission. In a lawsuit filed yesterday (June 4), Reddit accused A.I. company Anthropic of scraping its site’s content without authorization. Describing Anthropic as a company that “bills itself as the white knight of the A.I. industry,”...