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Reddit has initiated a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company unlawfully used Reddit’s user-generated content to train its Claude AI models. The lawsuit claims Anthropic scraped vast quantities of conversations and posts, a breach of Reddit’s user agreement. Reddit argues that Anthropic’s actions undermine its claims of ethical AI development, dismissing them as ’empty marketing gimmicks.’ The filing further alleges that Anthropic falsely stated it had ceased crawling Reddit, with evidence suggesting its bots attempted to access Reddit over one hundred thousand times after the claim was made. Reddit is seeking financial compensation, a court order to prevent Anthropic from using Reddit data, and a prohibition on selling products derived from that data. The case brings to the forefront the critical debate surrounding content creator rights and the permissible use of public data for AI training purposes.