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Anthropic accused of illegal data scraping by Reddit in California lawsuit

By Amy Miller ( June 4, 2025, 20:18 GMT | Insight) -- Online discussion site Reddit is suing Anthropic in California state court for allegedly accessing its users’ data without a licensing agreement, even after the artificial intelligence startup had pledged to stop. “Anthropic is a late-blooming artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,” Reddit said in a complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court. “It is anything but.” Online discussion site Reddit sued Anthropic today in California state court for allegedly accessing its users’ data without a licensing agreement after the artificial intelligence startup had pledged to stop....

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