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By David Uzondu · Posted
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. -
By Nick H. · Posted
I'm just thinking out loud for a second...could it be the cookie prompt that kicks up the adblock message? The reason I ask is that on Firefox (ad-block enabled but not for Neowin) I don't get the cookie consent option. But if I open Chrome (ad-block disabled) and go to the Neowin I get the cookie banner and then it's all fine. Some form of conflict of interest between the banners? It's probably nothing, but that's what I have just noticed.
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