{"id":969275,"date":"2025-10-24T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969275"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:20:36","slug":"perplexity-fires-back-at-reddits-lawsuit-denies-data-theft-allegations-amid-scrutiny-of-ai-scraping-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/perplexity-fires-back-at-reddits-lawsuit-denies-data-theft-allegations-amid-scrutiny-of-ai-scraping-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity fires back at Reddit&#8217;s lawsuit, denies \u2018data theft\u2019 allegations amid scrutiny of AI scraping practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, has denied allegations of \u2018data theft\u2019 after Reddit filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, 22 October, in a New York Federal Court. The case names Perplexity, founded by Aravind Srinivas, along with three other entities accused of scraping Reddit user comments for commercial gain.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform Reddit described the alleged activity as an \u201cindustrial-scale, unlawful\u201d scheme, and claimed it extracted millions of Reddit user comments without permission for commercial gain, Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, has denied allegations of \u2018data theft\u2019 after Reddit filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, 22 October, in a New York Federal Court. The case names Perplexity, founded by Aravind Srinivas, along with three other entities accused of scraping Reddit user comments for commercial gain. The social media platform Reddit described the alleged activity as an \u201cindustrial-scale, unlawful\u201d scheme, and claimed it extracted millions of Reddit user comments without permission for commercial gain, Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}