News Corp sues Perplexity for defrauding WSJ and Fresh York Post

News Corp, the parent company of media outlets such as Wall Street Journal and Fresh York Post Officesues AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. IN the lawsuit was filed on MondayNews Corp says Perplexity copies news articles, analysis and opinions “on a massive scale.”

Perplexity is an artificial intelligence startup that trains its AI search models using content from the Internet, enabling it to respond to user queries with a summary of their sources. As stated in the lawsuit, Perplexity advertises itself as a platform which allows users “skip links” to online articles, which News Corp says “draws customers and crucial revenue away from copyright owners.”

In addition to accusing Perplexity of reproducing some content “verbatim,” News Corp also claims that Perplexity may falsely attribute facts and analyzes to the company’s outlets, “sometimes citing an incorrect source and other times simply inventing and attributing fabricated news to Plaintiffs.” The lawsuit claims News Corp sent a letter to Perplexity in July regarding the “unauthorized” utilize of its content, but Perplexity “has not bothered to respond.”

News Corp is asking the court to force Perpelxity to stop using its content without permission and destroy any databases containing its works. Edge reached out to Perplexity for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

“The loss leads to intellectual property abuse that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp,” Robert Thomson, News Corp’s chief executive, said in a statement. “The troubled publishing house Perplexity has intentionally copied vast amounts of copyrighted material without compensation and shamelessly presents reused material as a direct substitute for the original source.”