The simmering feud between content creators and AI companies has taken a dramatic new turn. Reddit has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI, accusing the San Francisco-based start-up of illegally scraping its vast archive of user posts to train its artificial intelligence systems, according to the media reports. Filed in a New York federal court on Wednesday, the case marks the latest in a growing series of legal showdowns between AI developers and platforms that host the internet’s most valuable resource, authentic human conversation.

Alongside Perplexity, Reddit has also named three other entities in its lawsuit: Lithuanian data firm Oxylabs, Texas-based SerpApi, and AWMProxy, described by Reddit as a “former Russian botnet.” According to the complaint, these gro

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