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Chicago Tribune

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 12981 Report
Perplexity AI Reportedly Accused in Federal Lawsuit of Purported Copyright Infringement and False Attribution of Chicago Tribune Content

2025-12-04

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.

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Perplexity AI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1298
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    Perplexity AI Reportedly Accused in Federal Lawsuit of Purported Copyright Infringement and False Attribution of Chicago Tribune Content

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  • Incident 1298
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    Perplexity AI Reportedly Accused in Federal Lawsuit of Purported Copyright Infringement and False Attribution of Chicago Tribune Content

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Journalism

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1298
    1 Report

    Perplexity AI Reportedly Accused in Federal Lawsuit of Purported Copyright Infringement and False Attribution of Chicago Tribune Content

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Journalistic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1298
    1 Report

    Perplexity AI Reportedly Accused in Federal Lawsuit of Purported Copyright Infringement and False Attribution of Chicago Tribune Content

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1298
    1 Report

    Perplexity AI Reportedly Accused in Federal Lawsuit of Purported Copyright Infringement and False Attribution of Chicago Tribune Content

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