Dow Jones, New York Post Sue Perplexity AI for Copyright Infringement: Report

Dow Jones, New York Post Sue Perplexity AI for Copyright Infringement: Report

American publishing firm Dow Jones, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for copyright infringement. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp-owned companies allege that Perplexity engages in “a massive amount of illegal copying” of its copyrighted content, according to a Reuters report.

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Perplexity AI

Perplexity is an AI startup that trains its AI search models using content from across the web, allowing it to respond to user queries with summaries of its sources. Perplexity employs a variety of large language models (LLMs), including those from OpenAI and Meta’s open-source model Llama, to generate these summaries. Although Perplexity provides citations in its results, its marketing promotes the idea that its interface enables users to “skip the links.”

Publishers Demand Immediate Action

“This suit is brought by news publishers who seek redress for Perplexity’s brazen scheme to compete for readers while simultaneously free riding on the valuable content the publishers produce,” according to the lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York by Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones and the NY Post, the report said.

The news organisations reportedly allege that Perplexity’s AI-generated “answer machine” has ingested their copyrighted news stories, analysis, and opinion pieces into an internal database used to generate responses to users’ questions.