Reddit Suing Anthropic Over Unauthorized Use of User Content for AI Chatbot Training

Social media platform Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI firm Anthropic, accusing the company of systematically scraping user content from thousands of subreddits without permission to train its Claude chatbot technology. The complaint alleges that Anthropic’s web crawlers accessed Reddit content since December 2021, even after the firm publicly announced it blocked Reddit access in July 2024.