"Who stole the cookies?" Reddit: "Google did!"

Based on this article by Ashley Belanger on Ars Technica.

The gloves are officially off in the AI data wars, as Reddit just filed a lawsuit accusing the AI search engine Perplexity of an elaborate scheme to illegally steal its content. Reddit alleges that the self-proclaimed "answer engine" is "nothing groundbreaking," instead using another company’s LLM to scrape Reddit posts from Google search results, likening the companies involved to "bank robbers."

The lawsuit claims Reddit caught Perplexity "red-handed" after testing the scraper by baiting it with the "digital equivalent of marked bills," content only accessible through Google’s own pages. This explosive legal battle highlights the growing tension and high-stakes conflict over who owns the valuable foundational data that powers the world's most popular AI tools.

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