"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 copyright infringement lawsuit in New York federal court against Perplexity AI, alleging unlawful copying of its reporting to build AI-driven products. The lawsuit alleges that Perplexity reproduced large portions of Tribune stories, videos, and images and used them to generate answers on a chatbot and a new search engine. The complaint states those outputs can be identical or substantially similar to Tribune content and sometimes inaccurate, diverting web traffic away from the newspaper. The lawsuit claims this conduct threatens the newspaper's subscription and advertising revenue. Perplexity did not immediately respond. Perplexity recently launched a browser and had promoted a "skip the links" approach.
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