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'Content kleptocracy': News Corp outlets sue Perplexity over scraped stories

News Corp's Dow Jones and the NY Post have sued growing AI startup Perplexity over what they describe as a "content kleptocracy."

In a lawsuit filed in New York on Monday, the media organization claimed that Perplexity engages in copyright violations on a “grand scale,” simultaneously duplicating and misrepresenting original content created by others:

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Its AI “answer engine” copies on a massive scale, among other things, copyrighted news content, analysis, and opinion as inputs into its internal database. It then uses that copyrighted content to generate responses to users’ queries that are intended to and do act as a substitute for news and other information websites. Perplexity loudly touts that its answers to user queries are so reliable that its users can “Skip the Links” to the original publishers and instead rely wholly on Perplexity for their news and analysis needs. What Perplexity does not tout is that its core business model involves engaging in massive freeriding on Plaintiffs’ protected content to compete against Plaintiffs for the engagement of the same news-consuming audience, and in turn to deprive Plaintiffs of critical revenue sources.

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News Corp is far from the first to make this claim. Many news sites have expressed concerns that Perplexity closely replicates their content, with the occasionally egregious example, as with a piece that Forbes called out this summer. Just last week, The New York Times sent a cease and desist to Perplexity.

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