Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement
The lawsuit targets the company’s retrieval-augmented generation technology.
A new legal front
The Chicago Tribune filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Thursday, alleging that the search startup is systematically infringing on its copyright. Filed in the Southern District of New York, the complaint accuses Perplexity of illegally accessing and repurposing the newspaper’s content to fuel its AI-generated summaries.
The lawsuit specifically targets Perplexity’s Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, which fetches real-time information from the web to answer user queries. The Tribune argues that by providing detailed summaries of its articles, Perplexity acts as a market substitute, depriving the publisher of traffic and subscription revenue.
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