Reddit Sues Perplexity for Scraping Data to Train AI System
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Reddit is suing Perplexity for allegedly scraping its data to train an AI system, raising concerns about data ownership and AI development.
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mikece
2 months ago
Just a hunch, but they are going after Perplexity first because they are smaller and want the precedent of a win before going after the rest of the big LLM providers?
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