It seems that Perplexity AI is once again in the midst of controversy involving a name from the Big Tech. Social media platform Reddit has filed a federal lawsuit against the AI search startup and three other data-scraping firms, escalating a legal battle over the rights to internet content used to train generative AI models.

The complaint, filed in a US District Court in New York, accuses the defendants of engaging in an industrial-scale, unlawful operation to harvest user posts and comments, violating US copyright laws and circumventing digital defenses.

The lawsuit alleges that Perplexity is a “willing customer” of a new “data laundering economy.” Reddit named three co-defendants — Lithuania-based Oxylabs UAB, Texas-based SerpApi, and AWMProxy (described as a former Russian botnet)

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