"Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an "industrial-scale, unlawful" economy to "scrape" the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain. Reddit's lawsuit in a New York federal court takes aim at San Francisco-based Perplexity, maker of an AI chatbot and "answer engine" that competes with Google, ChatGPT, and others in online search."
"But the lawsuit filed Wednesday is different in the way that it confronts not just an AI company but the lesser-known services the AI industry relies on to acquire online writings needed to train AI chatbots. "Scrapers bypass technological protections to steal data, then sell it to clients hungry for training material. Reddit is a prime target because it's one of the largest and most dynamic collections of human conversation ever created," said Ben Lee, Reddit's chief legal officer, in a statement Wednesday."
Reddit filed a lawsuit in New York federal court accusing Perplexity AI and three other entities of participating in an industrial-scale operation that scraped millions of Reddit comments for commercial use. The complaint names Perplexity, Lithuanian data-scraping firm Oxylabs UAB, a web domain called AWMProxy described as a former Russian botnet, and Texas startup SerpApi. Reddit alleges scrapers circumvent technological protections to steal data and sell it to AI developers seeking training material. Perplexity said it had not yet received the suit and defended open access to public knowledge. SerpApi denied the allegations and plans to defend itself; Oxylabs and AWMProxy did not immediately respond.
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