US EditionNew York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of content
The New York Times alleges Perplexity AI copied millions of articles including paywalled content and falsely attributed AI-generated falsehoods, harming its brand and violating trademarks.
- On Dec 5, The New York Times filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York alleging Perplexity AI copied, distributed, and displayed millions of its articles without permission.
- Founded in 2022, Perplexity AI has raised more than $1.5 billion from IVP, New Enterprise Associates and Nvidia, while The Times says its product relies on scraping paywalled content.
- According to the filing, Perplexity's outputs are identical or substantially similar to The New York Times' work, and The Times alleges trademark misuse violating the Lanham Act by displaying its marks beside fabricated 'hallucinations'.
- Facing suits from multiple publishers, Perplexity confronts disputes from Dow Jones, the New York Post, and Reddit, risking its business amid broader conflicts over unauthorized AI training content.
- The case joins a string of industry suits as The New York Times has a separate 2023 Southern District of New York suit against Microsoft and OpenAI, and Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion.
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The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune have filed separate lawsuits against Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement. The Times said it had sent Perplexity several cease-and-desist demands to stop using its content until the two reached an agreement, but the AI company persisted in doing so. In the lawsuit [PDF], the Times accused Perplexity of infringing on its copyrights at two main stages. First, by scraping its website (including i…
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