Social media platform Reddit has sued Perplexity AI in federal court on Wednesday, alleging that the artificial intelligence company and its data partners orchestrated an “ industrial-scale” scheme to scrape the platform’s user-generated content.

Reddit alleges that the other defendants: SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWM Proxy, developed and sold tools specifically designed to break security measures protecting its content, enabling the large-scale scraping of Reddit data from search results.

The tools were allegedly built with the intention of bypassing two layers of protection: first, by evading Reddit’s own anti-scraping systems, and second, by circumventing Google’s controls to extract Reddit content directly from its search engine results.

The data companies operated as “data-scraping service providers” and “circumvented Google’s technological control measures and automatedl

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Author: Vince Dioquino