Reddit’s lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, accuses the Amazon-backed AI company of breaching its user agreement. “As far back as December 2021…Anthropic was already—without authorization and in direct violation of Reddit’s User Agreement—training Claude on Reddit users” posts, the lawsuit claims.

Reddit started a legal fight against AI giant Anthropic over data scraping, highlighting issues of content ownership and copyright in the genAI era.

All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site Reddit, the popular internet discussion forum, sued Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that the AI biz scraped content generated by its users in violation of contractual terms and technical barriers.