Reddit said the AI company unlawfully used Reddit’s data for commercial purposes without paying for it and without abiding by the company’s user data policy, according to the complaint, which was filed Wednesday in California. “Anthropic is in fact intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent,” the complaint says, alleging that Anthropic’s conduct runs counter to how it “bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry.” Reddit, the online discussion forum where users can post anonymously and ask each other questions, has reached formal agreements with both OpenAI and Google to license Reddit’s valuable human user data. Anthropic didn’t immediately comment. Last year, Reddit took steps to try to limit unauthorized scraping of its website, creating a public content policy for its user data that is publicly accessible, such as posts on subreddits, and updating code on its back end. Reddit said it had tried and failed to reach an agreement with Anthropic, and that it found Anthropic accessing its site after the AI company said it had blocked its bots from doing so.

Full report : Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100,000+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached user data licensing deals with OpenAI and Google.