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“We will not tolerate profit-seeking entities like Anthropic commercially exploiting Reddit content for billions of dollars without any return for redditors or respect for their privacy.”

— Ben Lee, Chief Legal Officer of Reddit2025-06-04

Speaker: Ben Lee
Role: Chief Legal Officer of Reddit
Date: 2025-06-04
Type: exec

Context

Reddit's CLO statement accompanying the company's lawsuit against Anthropic over alleged unauthorized scraping of Reddit content for AI training.

Related issue

Reddit Sues Anthropic Over Alleged Unauthorized AI Training Scraping

Sources

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TechCrunch — Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data
News2025
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Entrepreneur — Reddit Sues AI Startup Anthropic
News2025