Reddit’s Data Becomes a Battleground in the AI Gold Rush

Why Reddit Filed Lawsuit Against Perplexity And Data Scrapers

In 2023, Reddit asked companies such as OpenAI to pay for access to its data, but some companies, instead of paying, scraped Reddit content from Google search results.

The fight between AI companies and the websites that hate them

A lawsuit by online message board Reddit alleges a company hijacked its data and gives a glimpse at the knockdown boxing match behind chatbot conversations.

Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet

When Reddit sued "data scraper" companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we've been tracking as companies try to wall off the open internet and set up toll booths. But reading the actual complaint made it clear this is something…

Analysis | The fight between AI companies and the websites that hate them

A lawsuit by Reddit alleges companies hijacked its data and shows how our love of AI may be breaking the internet.

Reddit’s data becomes a battleground in the AI gold rush

The NewsOne of the byproducts of the chatbot explosion is the world has come to know the value of Reddit. Google inked a $60 million deal to use the platform’s content to train large language models. And everyone else seems to want it too, even if they aren’t willing to pay for it. Reddit sued Anthropic this summer for training on it without permission.Reddit data is also coveted by AI search engines. Earlier this week the company filed a lawsui…

Reddit Sues Perplexity and Three Data Scraping Companies Because They Crawled Google – Pixel Envy

Matt O’Brien, Associated Press: 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. […] Also named in the lawsuit are Lithuanian data-scraping company Oxylabs UAB, a web domain called AWMProxy that Reddit describes as a “former Russi…