Reddit on Wednesday sued Anthropic for “unlawfully exploiting” its content to train its Claude artificial intelligence model without its consent.

The social platform, in its lawsuit filed in San Francisco, said Anthropic feels “entitled to take whatever content it wants and use that content however it desires, with impunity.” Anthropic, Reddit claims, has used bots to scrape its site more than 100,000 times since July 2024, when Reddit said it needed to pay if it wanted to access its content.

“We disagree with Reddit’s claims and will defend ourselves vigorously,” an Anthropic spokesperson told TheWrap.

Reddit’s lawsuit said Anthropic has billed itself as the “white knight” of the AI industry by stressing respect for content owners and personal data. But those claims are just “empty m

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