US EditionReddit sues AI company Perplexity and others for ‘industrial-scale’ scraping of user comments
Reddit alleges Perplexity and others bypassed anti-scraping systems to steal data used in AI training, building a $20 billion business without paying for access.
- Reddit sued AI company Perplexity and others for scraping user comments on an 'industrial scale' without permission.
- Reddit claimed the companies circumvented protective measures to steal data needed for Perplexity's AI search engine.
- Reddit seeks monetary damages and an order blocking Perplexity from using its data.
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Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly scraping millions of user posts to train its AI model - Tech Startups
Reddit has fired a legal shot in the growing battle between tech platforms and AI firms over who owns the data that fuels machine learning. The company filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, accusing it of scraping millions of […] The post Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly scraping millions of user posts to train its AI model first appeared on Tech Startups.
The US social network Reddit has filed a lawsuit alleging that content posted on it was illegally collected and used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. The defendants in the case include AI company Perplexity and Lithuanian Oxylabs, the Verslo žinios portal reports.
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In a twist that would deserve to be a film script, the Reddit platform has accused Perplexity and three data scraping firms of having entered their forums without permission, collecting conversations and comments generated by millions of users, and then offering them to train artificial intelligence. According to The New York Times, Reddit claims that “they could not enter the bank” but “they assaulted the armored truck carrying the money.” This…
The platform accuses three companies of bypassing its protection systems to aspirate and resell messages from its users, in order to train AIs, including Perplexity's.
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