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Reddit

US discussion platform that both licenses its user content to AI developers and sues firms it says scraped it without permission.

1 entry · 22 October 2025

Reddit is a US social platform whose vast archive of user discussion has made it both a supplier of AI training data and a litigant over its use. In February 2024 it signed a reported $60m-a-year deal letting Google train models on its posts, and later struck a similar arrangement with OpenAI; it has since positioned that content as a licensed asset. In October 2025 it sued Perplexity and several data-scraping firms, accusing them of harvesting its data without permission, placing it among the rightsholders testing what AI companies may take from the open web.

Category
Media & rightsholders
Founded
2005
HQ
San Francisco, US
Key people
Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian

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  1. Reddit sues Perplexity and scraping firms over AI data collection

    Reddit alleged Perplexity used scraping firms to pull its posts indirectly from Google search results rather than pay for a licence, as OpenAI and Google had.

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