Perplexity Dismisses News Corp Copyright Lawsuit as Anti-Tech
Perplexity fires back at a copyright lawsuit from News Corp, accusing media companies of wanting AI technology to disappear. The startup avoids addressing the core allegations of massive content copying in its defensive blog post.
Perplexity fires back at News Corp over a recent copyright lawsuit, claiming that media companies simply wish AI technology did not exist. The startup accuses publishers like Dow Jones and the New York Post of wanting to charge a toll for publicly reported facts, marking a sharp shift in Perplexity's previously cooperative tone toward the media.
Despite making grandiose claims about the media industry, Perplexity provides little evidence to support its arguments and completely ignores the central allegation of the lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses the AI search engine of copying publisher content at a massive scale and directly competing with those same publishers for readers, a claim Perplexity fails to address in its response.
The startup's assertion that media companies universally oppose AI contradicts the reality of the current tech landscape. News Corp maintains a lucrative multi-year partnership with OpenAI, and Perplexity itself runs revenue-sharing programs with outlets like Time and Fortune, suggesting that publishers simply reject Perplexity's specific business model rather than the technology itself.