Perplexity AI has been caught in the crosshairs of another row over data scraping, this time with Reddit. The forum giant filed legal action against the AI research app, accusing Perplexity and three web intelligence platforms of unlawfully harvesting data.Perplexity was accused of securing Reddit data from SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy, with the trio accused of “masking their identities, hiding their locations, and disguising their web scrapers as regular people” to bypass Reddit’s security measures across network traffic. An event in July of this year apparently saw a haul of close to three billion search engine results pages (“SERPs”), including text, URLs, images, and videos.The web giant claimed it conducted a test that showed Perplexity was able to circumvent blocks designed to prevent crawlers from accessing its customers’ content for search responses without permission. Do you support data scraping on the internet?
