--- title: OpenAI, a company built on 'scraping' content without... description: OpenAI, a company known for 'scraping' content without permission, has made a copyright claim against the r/ChatGPT subreddit for the unauthorized use of its... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-a-company-built-on-scraping-content-without-permission-makes-a-copyright-claim-against-a--1xdiwyuel twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI, a company built on 'scraping' content without permission, makes a copyright claim against a subreddit using its logo | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI, a company known for 'scraping' content without permission, has made a copyright claim against the r/ChatGPT subreddit for the unauthorized use of its... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-a-company-built-on-scraping-content-without-permission-makes-a-copyright-claim-against-a--1xdiwyuel og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1xdIwYUEL.png og:image:alt: OpenAI, a company built on 'scraping' content without permission, makes a copyright claim against a subreddit using its logo og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI, a company built on 'scraping' content without permission, makes a copyright claim against a subreddit using its logo **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 4 min read · 12 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary OpenAI, a company known for 'scraping' content without permission, has made a copyright claim against the r/ChatGPT subreddit for the unauthorized use of its logo. The company's approach to copyright has been criticized, given its own use of copyrighted material to train its AI models. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@exfd3** · 2 upvotes > this is some big ass hypocrisy 🤢 **@bizarreal** · 2 upvotes > 🤡 **@mohamedreda11** · 1 upvotes > Almost all subreddits for specific companies, use said companies logos. I've never heard of this before. Maybe other companies sponsor their subreddits, but OpenAI doesn't want to? Strange, especially given how bad they are at marketing use cases for their previously non-profit LLM. > At least those enthusiasts aren't using their LLM to sing in a creepy female voice as a display of its power.. **@yaireo** · 1 upvotes >  **@klendi** · 0 upvotes > 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 company ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#crawling](https://daily.dev/tags/crawling) [View this post on 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