Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping of posts, expanding user data battle with AI industry

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Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping of posts, expanding user data battle with AI industry

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Social media giant Reddit has launched a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Perplexity, alleging that it illegally scraped user posts to train its AI model, marking the latest data-rights clash between content owners and the AI industry.
The complaint filed in New York…

This story appeared on cnbc.com, 2025-10-23 04:41:26.