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Reddit Sues Perplexity AI for Data Scraping Violations

10/22/2025

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Reddit, Inc., the social-media platform, filed a Manhattan federal court lawsuit against Perplexity AI, a technology company, and data-scraping firms Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and SerpApi.
The complaint accuses them of harvesting user data to train AI models.
It alleges they scraped Google search results by bypassing Reddit's security measures.
Reddit says Perplexity's citations surged after a May 2024 cease-and-desist letter.
Reddit seeks financial damages and an injunction against further data use.

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Reddit, Inc., the social-media platform, filed a Manhattan federal court lawsuit against Perplexity AI, a technology company, and data-scraping firms Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and SerpApi.
The complaint accuses them of harvesting user data to train AI models.
It alleges they scraped Google search results by bypassing Reddit's security measures.
Reddit says Perplexity's citations surged after a May 2024 cease-and-desist letter.
Reddit seeks financial damages and an injunction against further data use.