'Would-Be Bank Robbers': Reddit Says Perplexity Steals Data

By Lauren Berg ( October 22, 2025, 8:28 PM EDT) -- Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping companies act like "would-be bank robbers" to bypass Reddit's data security measures and collect users' "continuous stream of real-time and creative copyrighted works" to feed the company's generative text products, Reddit alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court....

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