Reddit Sues Perplexity AI and Oxylabs Over Data Scraping
The lawsuit alleges an "industrial-scale, unlawful" operation to harvest user comments from the platform to train commercial AI models.
A Lawsuit Against "Industrial-Scale" Harvesting
The social media platform Reddit filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court against the AI search company Perplexity AI, the web-scraping firm Oxylabs, and two other entities. The suit alleges an "industrial-scale, unlawful" operation to harvest comments and other copyrighted content from Reddit's platform for the purpose of training commercial AI models. The legal action strikes at a foundational practice of the AI industry, where many leading models have been trained on vast quantities of data scraped from the public internet.
"Scrapers bypass technological protections to steal data, then sell it to …
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