In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Reddit accused an AI search engine, Perplexity, of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, allegedly dodging anti-scraping methods that require substantial investments from both Google and Reddit.
Reddit alleged that Perplexity feeds off Reddit and Google, claiming to be “the world’s first answer engine” but really doing “nothing groundbreaking.”
“Its answer engine simply uses a different company’s” large language model “to parse through a massive number of Google search results to see if it can answer a user’s question based on those results,” the lawsuit said. “But Perplexity can only run its ‘answer engine’ by wrongfully accessing and scraping Reddit content appearing in Google’s own search results from Google’s own search engine.”
It’s interesting to see how the tech landscape is evolving, especially with legal disputes like this one. The implications for data use and AI development are significant. Looking forward to seeing how this unfolds!
Absolutely, the intersection of technology and law is becoming increasingly complex. It’s fascinating to consider how these cases might shape the future of data usage and privacy in AI development. This lawsuit could set important precedents for how companies handle information from major platforms.