"Its answer engine simply uses a different company's large language model to parse through a massive number of Google search results to see if it can answer a user's question based on those results. But Perplexity can only run its 'answer engine' by wrongfully accessing and scraping Reddit content appearing in Google's own search results from Google's own search engine."
"The only way that Perplexity could have obtained that Reddit content and then used it in its 'answer engine' is if it and/or its Co-Defendants scraped Google SERPs for that Reddit content and Perplexity then quickly incorporated that data into its answer engine,"
"within hours, queries to Perplexity's 'answer engine' produced the contents of that test post."
Reddit filed a lawsuit alleging that Perplexity and several companies conspired to scrape Reddit content from Google search results, circumventing anti-scraping protections that required major investments by Google and Reddit. Reddit claims Perplexity uses another company's large language model to parse many Google results and answer user queries, but can only operate by wrongfully accessing Reddit content in Google's SERPs. Reddit tested with planted, uniquely discoverable posts and says Perplexity produced those posts' contents within hours. Reddit likens the conduct to bank robbery. Perplexity denied wrongdoing, saying its engine summarizes and cites Reddit discussions.
Read at Ars Technica
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