New York Times Sues Perplexity AI Over Copyright Infringement
Hrvoje Milakovic
The New York Times escalates its legal campaign against artificial intelligence firms by targeting Perplexity AI, alleging the startup systematically copies and redistributes millions of its articles without authorization. This lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses Perplexity of violating copyrights through its generative search engine, which scrapes paywalled content to produce near-verbatim outputs. The action arrives as Perplexity faces...