Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive

Reddit has expanded its ongoing legal dispute by filing an amended complaint that accuses Perplexity AI of colluding with web scrapers to bypass platform access controls. The company claims these scraping activities violate its terms of service and infringe upon its intellectual property rights by training AI models on Reddit content. This litigation highlights broader tensions between platform owners and AI developers regarding data usage and the circumvention of robots.txt protocols to harvest web traffic for automated search tools.