A judge kept Reddit's AI case against Anthropic alive. Reddit alleges over 100,000 scrapes.
Anthropic's bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over AI training data was largely denied, Bloomberg Law reported.
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn let three of Reddit's five claims proceed. Breach of contract and interference with contract remain in the case, along with a claim under California's unfair competition law.
He dismissed two claims, unjust enrichment and trespass to chattels, as too vague. Reddit has until 16 October to refile them, Mashable reported.
The judge rejected Anthropic's argument that Reddit's user agreement is not a binding contract. He pointed to Reddit's allegation that Anthropic kept scraping the site more than 100,000 times after Reddit's CEO publicly called out the behaviour.
"Each of these claims is rooted in part on substantial state interests outside the sphere of the Copyright Act," the judge wrote, according to Bloomberg Law. That includes allegations that Anthropic trained models on Reddit content without any way to respect users' deletion requests. These remain Reddit's allegations. Anthropic did not immediately respond to Mashable's request for comment.
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