• by Ray Schultz , October 21, 2024

Dow Jones has filed suit against Perplexity AI for allegedly pursuing a “massive amount of illegal copying” of content in the New York Post and Wall Street Journal. 

The suit, on file with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, demands that Perplexity stop using news articles from those publications to answer questions, and that the firm destroy any database that uses their copyrighted work, according to the Post.

In a statement, Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp., accused Perplexity of “an abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp.”

The Post added that Perplexity is backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

In July, Condé Nast warned Perplexity to stop using content from its publications.  

The publisher sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing Perplexity of plagiarism. That came weeks after Perplexity said it would start a revenue-sharing program with web publishers.

This story was still developing at deadline.