Bloomberg: Reddit sues Anthropic for abusing user content, claiming it bypassed licensing agreements for profit

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Reddit has sued the AI company Anthropic in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, alleging that it has scraped Reddit content over 100,000 times without authorization since last July, using it to train AI models, violating platform rules and abusing user data privacy.

Reddit's Chief Legal Officer stated that they had attempted to negotiate a licensing agreement with Anthropic, and the lawsuit is a "last resort" to force them back to the negotiating table.