Reddit, Google and Perplexity
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Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, expressed on X that replicating YouTube and Google Maps is extremely difficult. He mentioned that while other Google products are hard to replicate, they remain doable,
Reddit claims it caught Perplexity doing something it shouldn't have.
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Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed
The AI startup Perplexity fell for a clever trap laid by the social media site Reddit that all but proves it scraped data from the forum.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says Google’s YouTube and Maps are nearly impossible to beat, calling them the toughest products to challenge as startups race to rival Big Tech.
Reddit in the lawsuit likened Perplexity to a “North Korean hacker," swiping a phrase from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. This summer saw Cloudflare accuse Perplexity, sans lawsuit nor mention of third-party tools, of obfuscating its crawlers to access content.
New research from Brave Software shows how hidden text in an image can be used to manipulate Perplexity's Comet browser.