Dec. 5 at 2:50 PM
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, alleging the startup unlawfully used millions of its articles without authorization to train its chatbot systems. According to the complaint, Perplexity copied, distributed, and displayed Times journalism without a license, benefiting commercially from content it did not create.
The newspaper argues that this constitutes improper use of its copyrighted material and threatens the value of its journalism. The case underscores rising friction between media organizations and artificial intelligence companies over the use of proprietary news content to develop AI models, an issue that is increasingly drawing legal scrutiny and industry pushback.
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