> Reddit said it had set a trap for Perplexity by creating a “test post” on its site that could “only be crawled by Google’s search engine and was not otherwise accessible anywhere on the internet.” Within hours, Perplexity search results had surfaced the content of that test post, the lawsuit said.
The NYTimes article has some interesting additional details about this case:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-sc...
> Reddit said it had set a trap for Perplexity by creating a “test post” on its site that could “only be crawled by Google’s search engine and was not otherwise accessible anywhere on the internet.” Within hours, Perplexity search results had surfaced the content of that test post, the lawsuit said.
Is anyone sueing Reddit for banning accounts and not allowing user comments to be changed?
Please start a class action suit and ping me when it gets somewhere.