Reddit Sues Perplexity AI and Data-Scraping Companies Over Copyright Infringement
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Summary
Reddit is suing AI company Perplexity and three data-scraping service providers (SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy) for allegedly circumventing Reddit's data protections to scrape copyrighted content. The lawsuit accuses these companies of industrial-scale data theft, comparing them to 'would-be bank robbers' who target the 'armored truck' instead of the bank vault. Reddit claims Perplexity is a customer of at least one of these scraping services, and the legal action aims to stop unauthorized use of Reddit's valuable content for AI training and other purposes.
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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
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