Daijiworld Media Network – New York

New York, Oct 23: Social media giant Reddit has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence startup Perplexity and three other companies in a New York federal court, alleging unauthorized scraping of its content to train Perplexity’s AI-based search engine.

In its complaint, Reddit accused the companies of bypassing its data protection measures to access information that Perplexity reportedly “desperately needs” to power its AI “answer engine.” This legal action follows Reddit’s earlier lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic filed in June, which remains ongoing.

Reddit’s Chief Legal Officer Ben Lee stated that AI companies are in an “arms race for quality human content,” fueling what he called an “industrial-scale ‘data laundering’ economy.” The pl

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