On the surface, Reddit’s lawsuit against Anthropic looks like another AI copyright fight, but the more fundamental question is: Why is the data hosted on Reddit perceived as so valuable?
Filed in San Francisco Superior Court, Reddit alleges that Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, accessed its platform over 100,000 times since July 2024 to scrape user data for model training, despite previously stating it had blocked its bots. The complaint is unambiguous: “Anthropic does not care about Reddit’s rules or users: it believes it is entitled to take whatever content it wants and use that content however it desires, with impunity.” Anthropic has responded, saying, “We disagree with Reddit’s claims and will defend ourselves vigorously.”
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Reddit is suing Anthropic, and enforcing its ownership stake in a lucrative data market.
