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AI Startup Perplexity Fires Back After News Corp’s Dow Jones Sues: ‘Adversarial’ Media Companies ‘Wish This Technology Didn’t Exist’
AI startup Perplexity responded to a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed against it by News Corp's Dow Jones and New York Post.
Perplexity noted that it has struck revenue-sharing programs with publishers including Time, Fortune and Der Spiegel and said “our door is always open if and when the Post and the Journal decide to work with us in good faith, just as numerous others already have.” The AI startup also asserted that in several cases, media companies that are suing “make all kinds of salacious allegations in their complaints about all kinds of seemingly bad things they were able to coax the AI tools to do — and then, when pressed in the litigation for details of things like how they achieved such obviously unrepresentative results, they immediately disavow the very examples they put in the public record, and swear they won’t actually use them in the case. 1 overall chatbot in its “Great AI Challenge ” bakeoff, ahead of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
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