Reddit Sues Perplexity AI and Data Scrapers for Alleged User Content Theft in AI Training

Oct 23, 2025 02:48 am CST

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three other entities, accusing them of unauthorized scraping of user comments for AI training purposes. The lawsuit targets not only the AI company but also data-scraping services that collect content from Google Search results to circumvent Reddit's protective measures. This legal action follows Reddit's previous lawsuit against Anthropic and highlights the growing tensions between content platforms and AI companies over data usage rights.