Top Japan News Outlets Sue AI Startup Perplexity for Copyright Violations
Nikkei Inc. and the Asahi Shimbun Co. have filed a lawsuit against U.S.-based AI company Perplexity AI Inc., accusing it of using their content without permission. The lawsuit follows similar legal actions by other media companies globally in response to AI firms scraping and deploying copyrighted news in generative systems. Perplexity offers an AI-powered search tool that sources information from the web, often generating text that mirrors news articles without attribution or compensation.
This lawsuit escalates the legal debate over AI use of journalistic content, highlighting mounting pressure on AI firms to rethink how they source data.
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