CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft
CNN is suing Perplexity, arguing that a company “valued at tens of billions of dollars” should pay for the journalism it exploits.

CNN is suing Perplexity, arguing that a company “valued at tens of billions of dollars” should pay for the journalism it exploits.

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Scott Turow and five major publishers sued Meta for using copyrighted books to train its Llama AI model. The complaint cites pirate sites and internal messages about sidestepping licensing deals.

The Trump administration’s AI policy framework backs AI companies on copyright and wants to override state regulation.
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Britannica says OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles to train ChatGPT, then used the chatbot to steal its traffic.

Perplexity is fighting back in the Dow Jones copyright case — accusing publishers of using deceptive prompts to manufacture evidence of infringement.
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The lawsuit claims the AI search engine grabbed entire articles and falsely attributed hallucinated information to the newspaper.
