{"id":969363,"date":"2025-10-24T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969363"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:54:47","slug":"reddit-vs-perplexity-and-the-scourge-of-data-laundering-in-an-ai-slop-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/reddit-vs-perplexity-and-the-scourge-of-data-laundering-in-an-ai-slop-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit vs Perplexity, and the scourge of \u2018data laundering\u2019 in an AI slop world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for \u201cindustrial-scale data laundering\u201d, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites\u2014often without permission\u2014for original content to train their large language models.<\/p>\n<p>Three data-scraping companies\u2014OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi\u2014have 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for \u201cindustrial-scale data laundering\u201d, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites\u2014often without permission\u2014for original content to train their large language models. Three data-scraping companies\u2014OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi\u2014have 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.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969363","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=969363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}