Reddit Sues Anthropic for Scraping Millions of Comments

Reddit has filed a lawsuit in California against AI firm Anthropic, alleging the illegal scraping of millions of user comments to train its Claude chatbot without consent or compensation. Reddit asserts that Anthropic accessed its platform repeatedly despite requests to stop and did so without a licensing agreement, unlike Google and OpenAI. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction to prevent further use of Reddit content by Anthropic. Anthropic, valued at $61.5 billion and backed by Amazon, has denied Reddit's claims and stated it will defend itself vigorously. The dispute has affected Reddit's stock price and underscores increasing tensions between content platforms and AI companies over data use. The case is part of a broader trend of legal challenges over unauthorized data use for AI training.