Description: On December 5, 2025, The New York Times sued Perplexity, alleging the company used copyrighted Times articles without permission to train its AI system and generated outputs that reproduced Times content or falsely attributed fabricated information to the newspaper. The suit claims the conduct harmed the Times's business and brand. Perplexity denies wrongdoing.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Perplexity AI , Perplexity AI search engine and Perplexity AI LLM developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Writers , The New York Times , publishers , Journalistic integrity , Journalism and Epistemic integrity.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1294
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-12-05
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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The New York Times claimed in a lawsuit on Friday that its copyrights were repeatedly violated by Perplexity, an artificial intelligence start-up that has built a cutting-edge internet search engine.
The Times said in its lawsuit that it ha…
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