Reddit targets ‘would-be bank robbers’ Perplexity AI and others

The social media platform sues the AI giant and three other companies for allegedly circumventing its data protections to scrape valuable content.

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Reddit targets ‘would-be bank robbers’ Perplexity AI and others

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