Reddit troway Perplexity AI for unauthorsed data scraping

Reddit don go file case for Manhattan federal court against Perplexity AI, dem dey accuse the $20 billion answer engine say e dey do data scraping without permission. Di complaint talk say Perplexity AI no respect robots.txt rules or Reddit’s API block dem, instead dem dey use third party scraper like Oxylabs, AWM Proxy and SerpApi to gather user content. To prove their case, Reddit create hidden “digital trap” post wey you fit access only by Google licensed search—and Perplexity tool reproduce the content inside few hours. Perplexity AI deny the accusation, dem talk say dem no dey train models with scraped data and dem go defend open AI development. The lawsuit follow similar Cloudflare test dem and e show how law matter dey grow for AI training data, content protection, and license for digital networks.