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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