Reddit says Anthropic is calling it an AI rival to restrict discovery

Ahead of a September 10th hearing, Reddit says Anthropic wants tighter controls on its lawyers, experts, technical records and electronic evidence.

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Primary source: San Francisco Superior Court

Why it matters

The ruling will shape whether training-data plaintiffs can inspect model-development evidence without exposing an AI defendant's trade secrets to their own product teams.

A digital rendering depicts two abstract, glowing entities in a holographic legal dispute, with a specific case number, against a dark, high-tech background.

Reddit accused Anthropic of using trade-secret concerns to control who can examine evidence and how that evidence can be searched in the companies' legal fight over Claude's alleged use of Reddit data.…

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