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Reddit Sues Anthropic Over Unauthorized Data Scraping

A ruling could reshape AI data licensing standards in the industry.

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Overview

  • Reddit filed a lawsuit on June 4 in San Francisco Superior Court accusing Anthropic of scraping millions of user comments without consent to train its Claude chatbot.
  • The complaint alleges Anthropic ignored Reddit’s robots.txt restrictions and accessed the platform more than 100,000 times despite claiming to have blocked its bots.
  • Reddit is seeking compensatory damages, restitution and a court injunction to stop Anthropic from using its content for commercial AI development.
  • Anthropic has disputed the allegations and vowed to defend itself vigorously, highlighting escalating legal pressure on AI firms’ data-training practices.
  • Reddit’s existing licensing agreements with Google and OpenAI illustrate its insistence on clear terms and compensation when AI companies access its user-generated archive.