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Perplexity blasts media as ‘adversarial’ in response to copyright lawsuit
Perplexity is pushing back on a lawsuit.
Perplexity, in its response today, argues that news organizations like News Corp that have filed lawsuits against AI companies “prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll.” (Previously, Forbes accused Perplexity of publishing “eerily similar wording” and “some entirely lifted fragments” from its stories.) Perplexity thinks that the lawsuit “reflects an adversarial posture between media and tech that is — while depressingly familiar — fundamentally shortsighted, unnecessary, and self-defeating.” The company says there are “countless things we would love to do beyond what the default application of law allows,” and it points to its revenue-sharing program it has launched in partnership with publications like Time, Der Spiegel, and Fortune as something that it’s proud of.
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