**New York Times Sues Perplexity Over AI Copyright Infringement**<\/p>\n
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI, alleging widespread copyright infringement. The complaint, lodged in federal court, accuses Perplexity of “scraping” vast amounts of The Times’ copyrighted journalistic content to train its AI models and generate summaries that directly compete with the newspaper’s own offerings, often without proper attribution or licensing.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit highlights a growing tension between traditional media organizations and burgeoning AI companies, with publishers arguing that their valuable content is being illicitly used to fuel AI development and profit, undermining their business models. The Times is seeking both monetary damages and an injunction to prevent Perplexity from further unauthorized use of its content, a move that could set a significant precedent for the future of AI and intellectual property rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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