Wall Street Journal, New York Post Sue Jeff Bezos-Backed Perplexity As AI Battles Rage

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Dow Jones & Co., parent of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp., sued the Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits around artificial intelligence that have met with varying degrees of success.

Perplexity “claims to provide its users accurate and up-to-date news and information in a platform that, in Perplexity’s own words, allows users to “Skip the Links” to original publishers’ websites.

Perplexity attempts to accomplish this by engaging in a massive amount of illegal copying of publishers’ copyrighted works and diverting customers and critical revenues away from those copyright holders.

This suit is brought by news publishers who seek redress for Perplexity’s brazen scheme to compete for readers while simultaneously freeriding on the valuable content the publishers produce,” the suit said.