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Reddit Sues Anthropic Over AI Data Scraping — Is This a Proxy War in Disguise?
2 min read Reddit just sued Anthropic for scraping its data to train AI without permission. With 100K+ unauthorized bot hits and failed licensing talks, this might be more than a copyright fight—it’s starting to look like an AI proxy war. June 05, 2025 15:18
Reddit just dropped a legal bomb on Anthropic, filing a lawsuit that accuses the AI startup of illegally scraping Reddit’s platform to train its language models—without permission or payment.
The breakdown:
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100,000+ hits and counting: Reddit claims Anthropic’s bots accessed its servers over 100,000 times, even after the company was told to stop. Anthropic allegedly assured Reddit it had blocked the bots—but the scraping continued.
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A deal that never happened: Reddit says it tried to strike a licensing agreement, similar to its current deals with OpenAI and Google, but Anthropic refused to cooperate.
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Caught in the act? Reddit alleges Anthropic has previously admitted to using Reddit data, pointing out that its chatbot Claude frequently references subreddit content.
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What Reddit wants: The platform is seeking compensatory damages and a court order to permanently block Anthropic from using its content.
Why this matters:
Lawsuits in the AI space aren’t new—but this one is different. It marks one of the first major social platforms taking legal action to protect its data. And with Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) owning nearly 9% of Reddit, and Anthropic recently moving against an OpenAI-acquired startup, the timing raises a question:
Is this more than just a copyright dispute?
Could we be watching a proxy war between AI titans—fought not with models, but lawsuits?
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