In Episode 38 of the Thought Media Podcast, Ava and Max dive into a major legal development: Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three data-scraping companies — Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and SerpApi — for illegally data scraping Reddit’s user content to train AI models. The lawsuit, filed on October 22, 2025, claims the defendants violated Reddit’s copyright and terms by bypassing its protective barriers.
This landmark case could shape the future of data usage in AI training. It raises the broader issue of whether scraping publicly accessible web content is lawful — or a violation of intellectual property. The outcome may set new legal boundaries for AI firms and how they collect training data. Ava and Max also discuss how this impacts the ethical development of AI and the need for clearer industry standards.