Welcome to the TechMean right home for Thursday, June 5th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Reddit goes after Anthropic.

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world of tech. Reddit is suing Anthropic, alleging that Anthropic accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times

after saying it would stop doing so. You might remember, Reddit has reached formal AI licensing

deals with the likes of OpenAI and Google, so this is like that line in Goodfellas. F. You pay me.

Quoting the journal. 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 Anthropics conduct runs counter to how it,

quote, bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry, end quote.

A spokeswoman for Anthropics said the company disagrees with Reddit's claims and will

defend itself vigorously. 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. The user policy includes protections for users, such as ensuring that deleted posts

and comments aren't included in data licensing agreements. 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. Reddit has struck lucrative licensing deals with

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