Washington, USA – The New York Times has filed a new lawsuit against the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI.
Accusing it of “illegal and systematic” copying of the newspaper’s content
and exploiting it in responses generated by its AI-powered search engines.
This lawsuit, reported by Reuters, reignites the ongoing debate about copyright.
And the use of protected journalistic content in training
and feeding generative artificial intelligence models.
The New York Times confirms that Perplexity, which describes itself
as a revolutionary answer engine, extracts
Presenting search results in a way that reduces reader visits to the original site.
This leads to significant losses in advertising and subscription revenues.
The newspaper emphasizes that Perplexity’s practices constitute
a violation of intellectual property rights.
The startup claims to intelligently summarize information,
However, The New York Times asserts that it “copies and imitates”
large portions of its texts without authorization or compensation.
This dispute is considered the latest chapter in the legal confrontation
between publishing giants and artificial intelligence developers.
It is seen as a crucial test that may define the limits of protected content
use in the new digital age and determine the future of the news industry.
