Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk8.W49v.NYfYXfBwO0Ry&smid=url-share
Reddit sued SerpApi and Perplexity for scraping Google to train AI models; Perplexity citations to Reddit spiked 40-fold post-cease-and-desist. For CTOs: sourcing training data from scrapers is a concrete compliance risk—cease-and-desist often fails to stop unauthorized data use.
Reddit Files Lawsuit Accusing ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Stealing Its Information
Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times:
Eight years ago, SerpApi, a start-up in Austin, Texas, dived
headlong into the byzantine world of using robots to “scrape”
Google’s search algorithms, so it could collect information to
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