New York Times suing perplexity expands legal battle over AI use of news content

New York Times suing perplexity expands legal battle over AI use of news content

The New York Times suing perplexity highlights growing tensions between publishers and AI companies over unlicensed content use. The New York Times suing perplexity marks a significant turning point in the relationship between major news publishers and artificial-intelligence companies that rely on their journalism for training and output. In its newly filed lawsuit, the Times accuses Perplexity of systematically using its copyrighted material without authorization, accusing the startup of repackaging and distributing its journalism in what it describes as “verbatim or near-verbatim” responses to user prompts. This lawsuit deepens a yearlong rift between the two organizations and signals an intensifying effort by established media outlets to defend their intellectual property as AI products grow more powerful and widely used. The Times asserts in its legal filing that Perplexity’s AI models have repeatedly crawled its website and extracted original reporting, photos, and multimedia cont…