Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results

“Unable to scrape Reddit directly, they mask their identities, hide their locations, and disguise their web scrapers to steal Reddit content from Google Search,” Lee said. “Perplexity is a willing customer of at least one of these scrapers, choosing to buy stolen data rather than enter into a lawful agreement with Reddit itself.”

On Reddit, Perplexity pushed back on Reddit’s claims that Perplexity ignored requests to license Reddit content.

“Untrue. Whenever anyone…