Reddit Files Lawsuit Against AI Startup Perplexity Over Alleged Data Scraping Violations
Social media platform Reddit has initiated legal action against artificial intelligence startup Perplexity, accusing it of unlawfully scraping data to train its AI search engine. The lawsuit alleges that multiple companies collaborated to bypass Reddit’s data protection measures in what sources describe as an industrial-scale data operation.
Legal Action Over AI Training Data
Social media platform Reddit has filed a federal lawsuit against artificial intelligence startup Perplexity, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters. The legal complaint, filed in New York, alleges that Perplexity and three data-scraping companies unlawfully extracted Reddit’s content to train Perplexity’s AI-based search engine without proper authorization.