The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging that an AI-powered search engine used its content without permission and profited financially.
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The American newspaper 'The Chicago Tribune' has filed a lawsuit against California-based AI 'Perplexity', alleging copyright infringement.
The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging that Perplexity used Tribune content without permission to profit from its AI-powered search engine.
claims that Perplexity has filed a lawsuit claiming that Tribune content was used without permission. Tribune lawyers wrote to Perplexity in October asking whether their content was used in its model. Perplexity lawyers responded that they did not use Tribune content in AI training. But the Tribune claims in court that Perplexity is providing its content to users as is.
Similarly, questions have been raised about Perplexity's 'Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). RAG is a technique used to reduce errors (hallucinations) in AI.
“Perplexity’s GenAI products display Chicago Tribune content as is,” the complaint states, “We believe Perplexity has illegally copied millions of our copyrighted news, videos, photos and other content.”
The Tribune has claimed in court that Perplexity is “scraping” Tribune articles without permission. The Tribune has also accused Perplexity of bypassing the paywall of its content to provide detailed summaries.
Perplexity has not commented on the matter. Earlier, 17 publications under MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing filed a class action lawsuit
