Reddit sues Anthropic over alleged unauthorised data usage training AI
Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, alleging that Anthropic has been using Reddit’s data for years without authorisation. This legal action highlights Reddit’s increasingly firm stance against data scraping and companies utilizing its content to train artificial intelligence models.
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In its legal filing, Reddit claims that Anthropic began training its Claude chatbot on Reddit data as early as December 2021. The lawsuit reportedly includes a screenshot where Claude seemingly acknowledges being trained on Reddit data. A Reddit spokesperson indicated that the lawsuit was the company’s “final option to force Anthropic to stop its unlawful practices” following repeated warnings.
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The spokesperson asserted Reddit’s belief in the Open Internet, but clarified that this principle does not grant Anthropic the right to unlawfully scrape Reddit content, exploit it for billions in profit, or disregard the rights and privacy of its users. The spokesperson further stated that despite clear violations of Reddit’s terms and repeated requests to cease, Anthropic has been caught accessing or attempting to access Reddit content via automated bots at least 100,000 times. This was characterized not as a misunderstanding, but as a sustained effort to extract value from Reddit while ignoring legal and ethical boundaries.
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