Reddit Raises Legal Ruckus Against Anthropic Over Unlicensed AI Training
Reddit has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic in a Northern California court, accusing the firm of using Reddit content without permission for training its AI models. According to a report by TechCrunch, the complaint centers on the unauthorized, large-scale scraping of Reddit data for commercial purposes.
The social media platform alleges that Anthropic’s actions violated Reddit’s user agreement and were carried out despite explicit warnings. “They scraped Reddit over 100,000 times even after we made it clear that they had no permission to use our content,” the complaint states.
While Reddit has already established licensing agreements with OpenAI and Google, allowing the use of its data under specific terms, no such deal exists with Anthropic.
Reddit’s Chief Legal Officer Ben Lee remarked, “We will not accept a situation where companies like Anthropic profit from Reddit content without offering any value to Reddit users.”
Anthropic has denied the allegations and signaled its readiness to contest the matter in court.
This legal move marks Reddit as one of the first major tech platforms to initiate a lawsuit against an AI company over data usage for model training, potentially setting a precedent for how AI firms access and utilize online content.
