Perplexity Sued By Japanese Media Giants For Stealing Information And Presenting False Information

Another day, different lawsuit of AI companies purportedly engaging successful copyright infringement. Two Japanese media groups, Nikkei and nan Asahi Shimbun, are suing Perplexity for illicitly having "copied and stored article content" from nan pair's servers, the Financial Times reports. Nikkei owns nan Financial Times.

The 2 media groups declare Perplexity supplied inaccurate accusation and credited these falsehoods to nan companies. "If near unchecked, this business could undermine nan instauration of journalism, which is committed to conveying facts accurately," Nikkei and nan Asahi Shimbun, which revenge a associated lawsuit, stated.

Each institution requests 2.2 cardinal yen ($15 million) successful damages and for Perplexity to region immoderate stored articles. "Perplexity’s actions magnitude to large-scale, ongoing ‘free riding’ connected article contented that journalists from some companies person spent immense clip and effort to investigation and write, while Perplexity pays nary compensation," Nikkei said successful a statement.

Ironically, this news comes conscionable 1 time aft Perplexity announced a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers. It's utilizing a caller Comet Plus subscription that provides users pinch "premium contented from a group of trusted publishers and journalists" for $5 per month.

Publishers are poised to get 80 percent of nan revenue, initially receiving costs retired of a $42.5 cardinal pool. However, that intends a subscription gives publishers $4 for turning complete their full library, a important alteration from nan $20 to $30 galore newspapers now complaint for access.

Perplexity's current Publisher Program provides shares of advertisement gross that a patient mightiness person received if users clicked connected their articles, alternatively than reference Perplexity's summary.

These moves create nan quality of Perplexity trying to enactment supra board, but nan astir caller suit isn't nan first clip reports person emerged of Perplexity raking websites' contented without permission. It's not moreover nan first clip this month.

An early August report from Cloudfare recovered that Perplexity has allegedly deployed web crawlers to sneak astir robots.txt files and firewalls. Cloudfare claims that Perplexity is impersonating Google Chrome pinch a generic browser and rotating done IP addresses not linked to nan company.

Perplexity besides faced a series of accusations successful nan summertime of 2024. Forbes accused nan institution of illicitly pulling its stories and publishing them, while Wired reported that Perplexity was scraping contented from it and different Condé Nast-owned publications.