Reddit has been suing Humanity for scraping his data without permission
Reddit has Filed the claim Against the anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude Chatbat has been using his data for years without the permission of the company. This litigation comes after taking a tough attitude against redit scrapers and companies that use its data to train AI models.
In December 2021, Reddit alleged that Anthropic was training its clad chatbot on Reddit data. The litigation also has a screenshot, which seems to have been identified as training on Claude Reddit data. In a statement to Egadget, the Reddit spokesman said that after repeatedly warnings, the claim was the “final choice of the company to force Anthropic to stop its illegal methods.”
“We believe in the Open Internet -it does not give the reddit content illegally screwed up, exploits our consumer rights and privacy for a profit of billions of dollars and ignores the rights and privacy of our consumer.” “Despite repeated requests made in a clear violation of the Reddit rules and stopping the reddit content through automated bots to access or access or access or access the reddit content at least 100,000 times. This is not misunderstanding, it is a continuous attempt to gather value from the reddit, ignoring the legal and moral boundaries.”
The company has become a particularly valuable commodity for the company as manufacturing AI companies are in the race to train Reddit’s vast archive new models of online negotiations. The company has touched licensing contracts with companies like the company Google And and Opena For access to its data. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been in the past Called Anthropic (along with other AI companies) to scrap the reddit. Last year, the company took action To limit Automatic scraping and AI warned companies They need to pay.
In their claim, Reddit said in talks about licensing, “refused to engage anthropic.” “Unlike its competitors, Antropic refuses to respect the basic privacy rights of Reddit users, including the removal of posts from its systems,”. “This case is about the two faces of human: the face of the people who try to enter the consumer with the arguments of the boundaries and the law towards the law, and the private face that disrupts any rules that can interfere with its pockets.”
In a statement, the Anthropic spokesman said, “We disagree with the arguments of Reddit and protect us intensely.”
Update, June 4, 2025 12:03 PM ET: This post has been updated to include a statement from the anthropic.
