The New York Times sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity stop accessing and using its content in AI roundups and other editions. The Wall Street Journal checked the document.
The letter argues that Perplexity became “unjustly enriched” by utilizing the publisher’s “expressive, fastidiously written, researched and edited journalism with no license,” which it says violates copyright laws.
This isn't the newspaper's first run-in with AI firms – it's suing OpenAI for using content without consent to coach ChatGPT. Other publishers have also accused Perplexity of unethical web scraping.
A recent study by Copy leaksa tool to envision for plagiarism and AI-generated content, found that Perplexity was in a position to aggregate paywalled content from publishers.
Perplexity recently launched an promoting revenue sharing program to present some a refund to publishers.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told WSJ the startup was considering collaborating with the NYT, saying, “We have no real interest in being anyone's antagonist here.”
