“By copying The Times’s copyrighted material and creating alternative outputs derived from its works, eliminating the need for users to visit The Times’s website or purchase its newspapers, Perplexity is misusing the substantial subscription, advertising, licensing and affiliate revenue opportunities that rightfully and exclusively belong to The Times,” the lawsuit says.
NYT Is seeking damages and also asking the court to permanently stop the AI startup from engaging in its alleged illegal conduct. “Publishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the Internet, social media, and now AI,” Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer said in an emailed statement. The Verge“Luckily it never worked, otherwise we’d all be talking about it by telegraph,”
Update, December 5: Added a statement from Perplexity.
