Reddit vs Perplexity, and the scourge of ‘data laundering’ in an AI slop world
Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large language models.
Three data-scraping companies—OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi—have been illegally collecting Reddit data via Google Search for the purposes of selling it, according to the complaint filed in a federal court in Manhattan, New York. Perplexity was buying the data from at least one of the companies.
