CNN is the latest media company to sue Perplexity - Engadget

The cable news channel has accused the AI company of "massive copyright infringement." CNN has joined the growing ranks of media companies suing Perplexity for copyright infringement. The cable news network has accused the AI search company of "massive copyright infringement" that includes wrongfully scraping its website and copying more than 17,000 pieces of its content. The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, claims that the AI company "unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes CNN's content from CNN Digital Platforms and third-party platforms." It also accuses the AI tools of reproducing "verbatim copies" of its articles, including paywalled stories, in query responses to users. Perplexity's AI tools allegedly have incorrectly attributed "hallucinated" content to CNN, which the company says in the suit violates its trademark. "CNN's lawsuit stands for the proposition that Perplexity, a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, should not be able to steal from entities that create the original content Perplexity exploits," a CNN spokesperson said in a statement to the outlet. "The public rely on high quality news journalism reported by human beings to understand the