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‘Content kleptocracy’: News Corp outlets sue Perplexity over scraped stories

News Corp's Dow Jones and the NY Post have sued growing AI startup Perplexity over what they describe as a "content kleptocracy." In a lawsuit filed in

In a lawsuit filed in New York on Monday, the media organization claimed that Perplexity engages in copyright violations on a “grand scale,” simultaneously duplicating and misrepresenting original content created by others: Perplexity, for its part, tends to characterize its web scrapers as collecting data not for inclusion in AI training, but simply as an index for its models to refer to when attempting to answer a user’s question. “We applaud principled companies like OpenAI, which understands that integrity and creativity are essential if we are to realise the potential of Artificial Intelligence,” wrote News Corp CEO Robert Thomson issued a statement.

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