Reddit (RDDT) has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against four companies — SerpApi, Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and Perplexity — accusing them of illegally scraping its data from Google (GOOGL) search results, The New York Times’ Mike Isaac reports. The suit claims that some of the data was sold to AI companies like OpenAI and Meta (META). Reddit is seeking financial damages, a permanent injunction, and a ban on the use or sale of the scraped data. Chief Legal Officer Ben Lee said the case highlights how AI firms are driving a large-scale “data laundering” industry to obtain human-generated content. Shares of Reddit are down 5% to $195.61 in afternoon trading.
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