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Reddit has filed a comprehensive lawsuit against AI company Anthropic. The social media platform has accused the firm of systematically scraping platform content without permission to train its Claude chatbot technology. Reddit Accuses Anthropic of Systematic Data Theft Reddit’s court filing asserts mass unauthorized use of its service by Anthropic’s bots. The social media company alleges Anthropic is employing web crawlers to scrape users’ content from thousands of subreddits without obtaining proper licensing deals. The complaint states that Anthropic began scraping Reddit posts as far back as December 2021 and scraping posts and comments from popular communities like explainlikeimfive, WritingPrompts, todayilearned, and AskHistorians. Despite the fact that Reddit’s robots.txt file clearly prohibits such automated access, Anthropic continued scraping to build training datasets for its Claude AI model. Complaint filed by Reddit against Anthropic Reddit argues Anthropic’s ClaudeBot spidered the site over 100,000 times even after the firm publicly declared it blocked Reddit from spidering on its site in July 2024. This, the complaint argues, is a clear violation of Reddit’s User Agreement, which prohibits commercial exploitation of the site’s content without written consent. The report further states Anthropic’s unwillingness to negotiate the licenses, unlike other rivals such as OpenAI and Google, which entered into official collaborations with Reddit. This unauthorized data collection has allowed Anthropic to build a multi-billion dollar business without offering Reddit and its community any compensation or privacy protection that is included in legitimate licensing agreements. Legal Claims Seek Billions in Damages and Injunctive Relief Reddit’s suit also identifies five independent legal bases of action against Anthropic. They also want monetary damages and court injunctions to prevent further abuse of data. The complaint filed in the San Francisco Superior Court is demanding specific performance, compensatory damages, lost profits, and disgorgement of Anthropic’s profits due to benefiting from…

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Filed under: News - @ June 5, 2025 12:27 pm