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Reddit takes legal action, says Anthropic trained Claude on Reddit posts without permission by David Uzondu Reddit has filed a complaint against Anthropic, alleging the AI company straight-up stole its content to train AI models, including the Claude chatbot, without paying a dime. The lawsuit, lodged on June 4, 2025, in San Francisco, accuses Anthropic of repeatedly violating Reddit's User Agreement, which explicitly prohibits unauthorized commercial exploitation and automated scraping of its platform. The data on Reddit seems to be very valuable, seeing as the platform is already making bank licensing its content to other big AI players like Google and OpenAI, as mentioned in its complaint. These deals are reportedly worth tens of millions annually, so it's understandable why Reddit would be ###### if Anthropic was just taking the goods for free. Reddit has been quite clear that while its platform is open for community, it has rules, and commercial outfits cannot just waltz in and use user-generated content to build billion-dollar enterprises without permission or compensation. According to Reddit, Anthropic has been scraping its content since at least December 2021, ignoring technical measures like robots.txt designed to prevent such automated access. Reddit claims that in July 2024, Anthropic falsely stated it had stopped its bots from accessing Reddit, when audit logs allegedly showed Anthropic's bots hit Reddit's servers over a hundred thousand more times in the following months. The complaint on page 5 even includes a screenshot of Reddit's lawyers chatting with Claude, where the AI "confirms" it was trained on Reddit data. Now, we don't know how true this is, given the fact that LLMs hallucinate a lot. Reddit's legal filing paints Anthropic as a company with "two faces": one that publicly preaches about ethical AI and respecting boundaries, and another that privately ignores rules to line its pockets. Reddit is not holding back in what it is asking the court to do to Anthropic. The company demands significant monetary compensation, aiming to recover any profits Anthropic made from using Reddit's data, get repaid for its own financial losses, and it is also seeking punitive damages, looking to punish Anthropic for what Reddit describes as willful and malicious conduct. In addition to that, the company is also seeking an injunction designed to permanently stop Anthropic from using any Reddit data. This order would also compel Anthropic to delete all Reddit content from its systems and pull any AI technology, like its Claude chatbot, from commercial use if it was developed using this disputed data. On top of all that, Reddit wants Anthropic to cover all its legal expenses, including attorneys' fees and court costs.

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SoundSwitch 6.14.1 by Razvan Serea SoundSwitch is a Windows app that makes switching your sound devices super easy. Normally, changing speakers or microphones means clicking through annoying menus. With SoundSwitch, you just press a shortcut key (like Ctrl + Alt + F1) — and it switches to the device you want. You can set different keys for speakers, headphones, microphones, or even groups of devices. It also lets you mute your mic with a hotkey and shows a clear banner so you know it's muted. It runs in the background, shows up in your taskbar, and starts with Windows if you want. It’s perfect if you use multiple audio devices and get tired of clicking around every time you want to change one. SoundSwitch features: Customizable Hotkeys: Assign specific key combinations to switch between audio devices quickly. ​ Playback and Recording Device Switching: Toggle between selected playback and recording devices without navigating through system menus. ​ Microphone Mute Toggle: Use hotkeys to mute or unmute the default microphone. ​ Persistent Mute Notification: Displays a compact banner indicating the microphone's mute state, which remains visible until the microphone is unmuted. ​ Profile Management: Create profiles to switch between specific combinations of playback and recording devices using designated hotkeys. ​ Command Line Interface (CLI): Control SoundSwitch through command-line commands for device switching, microphone mute control, and profile management. ​ Auto-Start with Windows: Option to launch SoundSwitch automatically upon system startup. ​ Multi-Language Support: Includes translations for various languages, such as Tamil. ​ Notification Customization: Choose the type of notifications displayed for device switching and mute status. ​ Support for Various Hotkey Combinations: Accepts single keys like PrintScreen, Pause, Home, End, and function keys as hotkeys. ​ System Tray Integration: Access settings and perform device switching directly from the system tray icon. ​ Device Grouping: Organize multiple devices into groups for streamlined switching. ​ User-Friendly Interface: Provides an intuitive setup and configuration process for users. ​ Open-Source Development: Available on GitHub for community contributions and transparency. ​ Regular Updates: Actively maintained with new features and bug fixes. ​ SoundSwitch 6.14.1 changelog: Bug Fixes settings: fix opening settings crashing the application when using CLI or opening SoundSwitch again (b3dca74) Languages Amharic: Added About translation using Weblate (8a40dab) Japanese: Translated About using Weblate (3541994) Japanese: Translated Settings using Weblate (ca5b2fe) Japanese: Translated Settings using Weblate (39a2340) Japanese: Translated Tray Icon using Weblate (1286b92) Japanese: Translated Update Download using Weblate (1c2c658) Norwegian Bokmål: Translated Settings using Weblate (5aaf243) Portuguese: Translated Settings using Weblate (e11f18d) Swedish: Translated Settings using Weblate (8b7b738) Download: SoundSwitch 6.14.1 | 45.4 MB (Open Source) View: SoundSwitch Website | Github | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware