CNN files lawsuit against Perplexity alleging unlawful content distribution
CNN says Perplexity copied and distributed its content without permission after licensing talks failed, joining a growing wave of publisher lawsuits against AI firms.
- On Thursday, CNN filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing Perplexity of unlawfully scraping more than 17,000 stories, photos, videos and other content to train its products.
- Licensing negotiations between CNN and Perplexity collapsed last year over unresolved terms; after talks failed, the network blocked Perplexity's scraping bot from accessing its content.
- In the 54-page complaint, CNN alleges Perplexity falsely advertised that users could skip "extra steps and clicks" to access news and falsely promoted its Comet Plus tier as providing CNN's premium content.
- As the first television network to file an AI copyright lawsuit, CNN joins publishers like The New York Times in seeking statutory damages and a court order barring Perplexity from using its content.
- Since ChatGPT's 2022 launch, publishers have pursued divergent strategies: News Corp, The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune sued Perplexity, while Gannett, TIME and Le Monde signed licensing deals with the company.
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CNN has filed a federal lawsuit against the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI, an escalation in the dispute between news publishers and generative AI platforms that scrape original reporting without permission or compensation. According to a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network accuses the "answer engine" of copying more than 17,000 CNN sto…
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Getting mad at the plagiarism machine for plagiarism is like getting mad at Adele Dazeem for being wickedly talented. However, CNN feels it has a case against Perplexity, the AI company the 24-hour news station is suing for copyright infringement, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter, who claims it might be the first television network to sue an AI company for stealing content. Before the suit, CNN and Perplexity had been in licensing negotiations, …
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