In response to the copyright lawsuit, Embarrassment describes the media as “adversarial.”

The embarrassment is the abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp. Embarrassment intentionally copies huge amounts of copyrighted material without compensation and shamelessly presents reused material as a direct substitute for the original source. Perplexity proudly states that users can “skip links” – clearly Perplexity wants to skip checking.

We applaud principled companies like OpenAI that understand that honesty and creativity are indispensable if we are to realize the potential of AI. Perplexity is not the only AI company abusing intellectual property, and it is not the only AI company we will fight with vigor and rigor. We’ve made it clear that we prefer to court rather than sue, but for the sake of our journalists, writers and our company, we must challenge the content kleptocracy.