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“The New York Times and Chicago Tribune Sue Perplexity for Copyright Violations” 🚨🚨🚨

A major legal battle is heating up in the AI world. The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against AI search startup Perplexity, accusing the company of massive copyright infringement and misuse of its journalism to power AI-generated responses.

According to the complaint, Perplexity allegedly scraped Times content without permission and created outputs that were “identical or substantially similar” to original reporting. The lawsuit states:

“Upon information and belief, Perplexity has unlawfully copied, distributed, and displayed millions of copyrighted Times stories, videos, podcasts, images and other works to power its products and tools.”

The Times also accuses Perplexity’s system of generating false or fabricated outputs — known as hallucinations — and then improperly attributing them to the Times, a practice the company says harms its brand credibility.

Chicago Tribune Files Its Own Suit

The Chicago Tribune filed a separate lawsuit Thursday, echoing similar concerns and alleging Perplexity used its reporting and media assets without authorization.

This marks one of the most aggressive pushes yet from major news organizations against AI companies they say are stealing their work to build competing products.

AI Search Competition Intensifies

Perplexity, once seen as an early disrupter with its “answer engine,” now faces heavy competition as larger players rapidly roll out similar features:

• OpenAI launched its AI-first web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, directly challenging Perplexity’s Comet browser.

• Google and Anthropic have also expanded AI-powered search tools, crowding a market Perplexity helped pioneer.

In a statement to Sherwood News, Perplexity’s Head of Communications Jesse Dwyer dismissed the lawsuits, framing them as part of a long-running pattern:

“Publishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI. Fortunately it’s never worked, or we’d all be talking about this by telegraph.”

The lawsuits could become a landmark moment in defining how AI companies train their models — and who gets paid when journalism powers the next era of search.