Judge Primed to Remand Reddit’s Anthropic AI Scraping Suit

A federal judge appeared hesitant to reverse her tentative order remanding Reddit Inc.'s lawsuit accusing Anthropic PBC of illegally scraping user posts to train its AI models.

Parties argued Tuesday, during a hearing in San Francisco, over whether Reddit’s ban on scraping in its terms of use is enough to distinguish the social media company’s allegations from copyright claims. Judge Trina L. Thompson pressed Anthropic’s counsel, Ragesh Tangri of Morrison & Foerster LLP, over his argument that scraping data is equivalent to copying that opens the door to federal jurisdiction under the Copyright Act.

Thompson pointed out that Reddit’s terms ...