From forum posts to courtrooms: Reddit v. Anthropic

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From forum posts to courtrooms: Reddit v. Anthropic

Reddit has taken Anthropic to court in California, claiming the AI start-up scraped the platform’s content over 100,000 times without permission.

According to the lawsuit, Anthropic used Reddit’s data, conversations from over 100 million daily users, to train its AI systems without striking a licensing deal or offering compensation.

While Reddit has made paid data deals with Google and OpenAI, it says Anthropic chose not to do the same.

Instead, the company allegedly accessed Reddit’s public content anyway, something Reddit calls both unfair and a privacy concern for its users.

In brief:

• Reddit says Anthropic accessed its data 100K+ times

• No licence deal, unlike Reddit’s agreements with Google and OpenAI

• Follows a wave of lawsuits over AI training data, including by The New York Times

“Borrowed” a bit too much

Anthropic, which recently raised funding at a $61.5 billion valuation, hasn’t commented yet.

This is just the latest clash in a growing wave of lawsuits as platforms try to control how their data is used to train AI.

As more companies realise the value of their user content, licensing deals are quickly becoming the norm, and skipping them is landing companies in hot water.

Claude out here reading Reddit threads like it pays rent (but it doesn’t).