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Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping user comments without consent

Lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court

Reddit alleges breach of terms and unfair competition

Anthropic disputes claims, plans vigorous defense

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude .

Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so, and “intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent.”

Anthropic said in a statement that it disagreed with Reddit’s claims “and will defend ourselves vigorously.”

Reddit filed the lawsu

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