"The Chicago Tribune filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday in New York federal court against Perplexity AI, alleging the California-based startup has been unlawfully profiting off the newspaper's content in building its AI-driven search engine. The complaint challenges the unauthorized use of often fully reproduced Tribune reporting to provide answers on the Perplexity AI platforms - both a chatbot and newly launched search engine - essentially bypassing the need to link to the newspaper's website."
"Using large chunks of the Tribune's original reporting - sometimes inaccurately - diverts traffic away from the newspaper's website, threatening its business model of paid subscriptions and advertising, the lawsuit alleges. "Perplexity's GenAI Products generate outputs that are identical or substantially similar to the Chicago Tribune's content," the lawsuit states. "Upon information and belief, Perplexity has unlawfully copied millions of copyrighted Chicago Tribune stories, videos, images, and other works to power its products and tools.""
The Chicago Tribune filed a federal copyright infringement suit in New York alleging Perplexity AI copied and used Tribune reporting, videos, images and other works without authorization. The complaint asserts Perplexity's chatbot and new search engine reproduce large portions of original reporting, sometimes inaccurately, producing substitutive outputs that reduce referrals and bypass links to the Tribune's website. The suit alleges millions of Tribune stories were copied to power Perplexity's products, harming subscription and advertising revenue. Perplexity launched a Comet browser, previously promoted "skip the links," and made an unsolicited bid for Chrome; a company spokesperson did not immediately comment.
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