The Chicago Tribunefileda lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday alleging copyright infringement. The suit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in a federal court in New York.
The Tribune alleges that its lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October asking if the AI search engine was using its content, according to the complaint. Perplexity’s lawyers replied it did not train models with the Tribune’s work, but that it “may receive non-verbatim factual summaries,” the lawsuit claims.
The Tribune’s lawyers, however, argue that Perplexity is delivering Tribune content verbatim.
While creators have filedmany lawsuitsagainst model makers over using their work for model training, we’ll have to see if the courts weigh in about the legal liabilities of RAG as well.
Perplexity did not immediately respond to the Chicago Tribune’s story about its own lawsuit, nor to TechCrunch’s request for comment. Perplexity is facing other such suits. Redditfiled one in October. Dow Jones isalso suing. Last month, whileAmazon didn’t sue, it did threaten toby sending a cease and desist letter over AI browser shopping.
Source: Techcrunch
