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Wall Street Journal, New York Post Sue Jeff Bezos-Backed Perplexity As AI Battles Rage


News Corp.'s WSJ and New York Post sued Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits by publishers around artificial intelligence.

Dow Jones & Co., parent of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp., sued the Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits around artificial intelligence that have met with varying degrees of success. Separately, Sarah Silverman and a group of high profile authors sued OpenAI and Meta in 2023 over copyright infringement concerns that their work and books have been illegally downloaded and used to train the company’s large language model AI software. In its traditional form, a search engine is a tool for discovery, pointing searchers to websites such as the pages of The Wall Street Journal or the New York Post, where the users can click to find the information and answers they seek.

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