Reddit accuses ‘data scraper’ companies of stealing its information

Eight years ago, SerpApi, a startup in Austin, Texas, dived headlong into the Byzantine world of using robots to “scrape” Google’s search algorithms, so it could collect information to help customers appear higher in search results

Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT came along, kicking off an artificial intelligence revolution. As more tech companies began building AI chatbots to keep up, they needed large amounts of data to train their AI models — data that SerpApi had already gathered.