Reddit Escalates Legal Battle With Perplexity AI Over Alleged Data Theft Scheme
Reddit has launched a major legal offensive against Perplexity AI, alleging the company engaged in systematic data theft through scraping intermediaries. The lawsuit employs dramatic analogies comparing data providers to “would-be bank robbers” and could set crucial precedents for AI data rights.
Reddit Alleges Systematic Data Theft
Reddit has escalated the ongoing battle over AI training data with a federal lawsuit against Perplexity AI, accusing the company of orchestrating what sources describe as an industrial-scale scheme to illegally scrape and profit from its content. According to court documents filed in New York federal court, the social media platform alleges Perplexity turned to data-scraping service providers after being explicitly told to stop accessing Reddit’s content directly.