Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging that Anthropic accessed its platform over 100,000 times since July 2024, despite claiming to have blocked its bots. In the lawsuit, Reddit accuses Anthropic of hypocrisy, stating it attempts to portray itself as a righteous company while secretly disregarding rules for profit. Ben Lee, Reddit’s chief legal officer, claims Anthropic’s commercial exploitation of Reddit content could be worth billions. Reddit’s human discussions are central to training language models like Claude. Previously, Reddit partnered with Google for AI training data. Anthropic has faced other lawsuits regarding copyright infringement, including one from three authors and another from Universal Music. This reflects a growing trend of publishers suing AI companies over alleged copyright violations. — new from The Verge