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‘Massive copyright violation’ threatens one of the world’s hottest AI apps
- Perplexity, a machine learning-powered AI answer engine, that offers direct answers to questions like Google, is facing a lawsuit against allegations of copyright infringement.
- According to the court documents filed by News Corp, Perplexity used the content published by its Wall Street Journal and New York Post publications without attribution, compensation or request for permission.
- This isn't the first time Perplexity had to face such accusations. It has previously been accused of copyright infringement by Forbes, The New Yorker, Vogue, Wired, and The New York Times.
- Perplexity's AI technology processes the information gathered from publicly available open-source software models, which it then summarizes and reproduces in its answer engine.
- News publishers generally depend on traffic, and ad revenue generated from links to their sites. Perplexity's answer engine bypasses these by providing direct content summaries to its subscribers, with no revenue-sharing or attribution with the publishers.
- Perplexity was also accused of inventing and attributing to Plaintiffs, fabricated news stories, citing an incorrect source, and consistently misrepresenting facts in its answers.
- With a $9bn valuation, the startup is reportedly in talks for a new funding round. The lawsuit alerts everyone about the growing concerns and debates surrounding the ownership and legality of open-source software and General AI.
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