New York CNN —Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post sued Perplexity on Monday, accusing the generative AI company of illegally scraping its reporting and diverting traffic to its own platforms.
The News Corp-owned companies accused Perplexity of training its so-called answer machine with copyrighted material, using scraped human-created news content to generate responses to users’ questions, allowing them to circumvent the publishers’ websites.
“Perplexity proudly states that users can ‘skip the links’ — apparently, Perplexity wants to skip the check.”A Perplexity spokesperson did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.
Earlier this year, News Corp inked a massive deal with ChatGPT creator OpenAI, licensing its news content in an agreement reported to be worth more than $250 million.
The Times also sued OpenAI last year for copyright infringement, accusing the company of using its reporting to train its chatbots without permission, claiming billions of dollars in damages.
Persons:
Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones, Perplexity, Robert Thomson, ” Thomson, “ Perplexity, —, OpenAI, Thomson, Sam Altman, “, ”
Organizations:
New, New York CNN, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, News Corp, CNN, Corp, Artificial Intelligence, New York Times, Times
Locations:
New York