Reddit Sues Perplexity AI and Others Over Data Scraping

Reddit filed a lawsuit in New York, accusing four companies of harvesting its content for AI training. The complaint names Perplexity AI, SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy. Reddit says the firms dodged its ban on bots by pulling Reddit text from Google results, then selling data to OpenAI and Meta. It seeks damages and a permanent injunction. The case lands amid a broader fight over data scraping. Reddit recently sued Anthropic over repeated visits after saying it stopped. LinkedIn sued ProAPIs for using robotic accounts. Legal hurdles loom: the defendants sit outside New York, and X lost a similar case last year. Oxylabs responded, “no company should claim ownership of public data that does not belong to them.”