"Reddit is suing Perplexity and three "data-scraping service providers" to "stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit," according to the complaint. The company equates the data scraping companies - SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy - to "would-be bank robbers" who "knowing they cannot get into the bank vault, break into the armored truck carrying the cash instead.""
"Reddit alleges that Perplexity is a customer of "at least one" of the data scraping companies, saying that it "will apparently do anything to get the Reddit data it desperately needs to fuel its 'answer engine' - that is, anything other than enter into an agreement with Reddit directly, as some of its competitors have done.""
Reddit filed suit against Perplexity and three data-scraping firms—SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy—alleging industrial-scale, unlawful scraping of copyrighted Reddit posts to supply AI systems. Reddit contends that Perplexity uses third-party scrapers instead of negotiating a data license and accuses the scrapers of circumventing site protections to extract valuable user content. Reddit characterizes the scraping operations as analogous to theft and says it sent a cease-and-desist to Perplexity in May 2024 demanding the scraping stop. Reddit seeks to halt large-scale circumvention and protect copyrighted content from being exploited by AI companies without agreements.
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