Throughout the blog, Perplexity does not mention or address the central claim of the lawsuit: that Perplexity allegedly copies content at a massive scale from publishers, then competes with them for the same audience.
Perplexity instead asserts that media companies like News Corp wish AI tools didn’t exist, a claim that’s very hard to justify. News Corp is one of many media companies that has a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to display the work of its journalists within ChatGPT. Perplexity itself also works with several legacy media companies — including Time, Fortune, and Der Spiegel — in a revenue share program. The facts suggest that many media companies simply don’t like the deal Perplexity and other AI companies are offering.