Description: The Chicago Tribune filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Perplexity AI unlawfully reproduced and paraphrased its copyrighted journalism in generative chatbot and search outputs. The complaint claims the AI system produced substitutive answers that bypassed links to the Tribune's website, diverted revenue, and at times hallucinated inaccurate information falsely attributed to the newspaper.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Perplexity AI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Chicago Tribune , Journalism , Journalistic integrity and Epistemic integrity.
Alleged implicated AI system: Perplexity AI
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1298
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-12-04
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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The Chicago Tribune filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday in New York federal court against Perplexity AI, alleging the California-based startup has been unlawfully profiting off the newspaper's content in building its AI-driven s…
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