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Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations

Time, Der Spiegel, and Fortune are among the first batch of publishers to join Perplexity’s publisher’s program.

Perplexity’s “Publishers’ Program” has recruited its first batch of partners, including prominent names like Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, and Automattic (with WordPress.com participating but not Tumblr). There’s also the looming threat of OpenAI, which just announced a prototype of its AI-powered search product, SearchGPT, alongside its own publishing partners like News Corp, The Atlantic, and The Verge ’s parent company, Vox Media. The CEO of The Atlantic, which recently made a deal with OpenAI, said on an episode of The Verge ’s Decoder that they weighed all the benefits of a partnership versus what it would cost to sue and how much they would get from it, “and then you make a choice.”

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