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.

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.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the competitive landscape of search and technology, with new players emerging to challenge established giants. Recently, Perplexity launched Comet, a browser designed to compete with Google's Chrome,

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,