Reddit—Reddit sued Anthropic for unauthorized scraping of user content to train AI models
Reddit filed a lawsuit in California state court against Anthropic, alleging the AI company made over 100,000 unauthorized requests to Reddit's servers to collect user posts and comments without permission. The suit alleged Anthropic circumvented Reddit's robots.txt file and refused to engage in licensing negotiations, unlike Google and OpenAI which entered formal licensing agreements. The case raised questions about intellectual property rights and data protection for user-generated content.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intellectual Property Ethics | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| User Privacy | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.429 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.57)
Evidence (1 signal)
Reddit filed lawsuit against Anthropic for over 100,000 unauthorized data scraping requests
Reddit filed a lawsuit in California state court against Anthropic, alleging the AI company made more than 100,000 unauthorized requests to Reddit's servers to collect user posts and comments. The suit alleged Anthropic circumvented Reddit's robots.txt file and refused to engage in licensing negotiations, unlike Google and OpenAI which entered formal agreements.