Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity in a New York federal court, accusing the company of illegally scraping its data to train Perplexity’s AI-based search engine. The complaint also names three other companies allegedly involved in the data scraping. According to Reddit, the data-scraping companies bypassed its data protection measures to steal content that Perplexity “desperately needs” to power its “answer engine” system, reports Reuters.

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This case is part of a growing wave of lawsuits where content owners are taking legal action against tech companies for using copyrighted material without permission to train artificial intelligence systems. In June, Reddit filed a similar lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, which

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