Reddit Sues AI Company Anthropic for Alleged Data Violations

San Francisco, California – Bloomberg News

Reddit has officially filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic in the Superior Court of San Francisco, California. The lawsuit was filed on the grounds that Anthropic has scraped or taken content from Reddit without permission more than 100,000 times since last July.

According to a Bloomberg report, Reddit accuses Anthropic of violating platform rules and misusing user data privacy by using that content to train their AI models without consent. Reddit stated that they have sought to establish a licensing agreement with Anthropic, but to no avail.

Reddit's Head of Legal emphasized that this legal action is a "last resort" after unsuccessful negotiations. “We want Anthropic to return to the negotiation table fairly,” he said.

This case adds to the series of conflicts between digital platforms and AI companies regarding the use of public data for technology development without explicit permission.