Inside the trap Reddit set for Perplexity in data scraping legal scuffle

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  • Reddit has sued Perplexity and data scrapers, accusing them of illegally stealing its data.
  • In the lawsuit, Reddit detailed a trap that it says Perplexity fell straight into.
  • It was the digital equivalent of a "marked bill," Reddit said in its lawsuit.

Employees at Reddit knew something was wrong.

The biggest winners from the Google antitrust decision? Its AI rivals.

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FILE PHOTO: Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
FILE PHOTO: Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California

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Inside 'Project Black Walnut' that sheds light on how Google thinks about Apple's ad business

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Wall Street is trying to make AI search sexy

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Google Search is about to see 'a pretty dramatic shift'

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Google I/O.

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Google keeps scaling back AI search results, new study finds

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Google's AI Overviews gives an auto-generated summary of search results.

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The New York Times and other top news sites block OpenAI's new SearchGPT web crawling bot

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at a conference in San Francisco

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Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds

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Sam Altman may have just scored a major coup

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Sam Altman attends Apple's WWDC on June 10.

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Did Google fix its AI answers? Or did it just stop showing us AI answers?

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Are Google's AI bots showing us fewer AI-generated answers? Or did they just fix the problem with bad ones?

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