{"id":21117,"date":"2025-12-06T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T10:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/new-york-times-sues-ai-startup-for-illegal-copying-of-millions-of-articles\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T10:37:58","slug":"new-york-times-sues-ai-startup-for-illegal-copying-of-millions-of-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/new-york-times-sues-ai-startup-for-illegal-copying-of-millions-of-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times sues AI startup for \u2018illegal\u2019 copying of millions of articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted content<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/new-york-times\">New York Times<\/a> sued an embattled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegally copying millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists\u2019 work without permission en masse.<\/p>\n<p>The Times said that Perplexity AI was also violating its trademarks under the Lanham Act, claiming the startup\u2019s generative AI products create fabricated content, or \u201challucinations\u201d, and falsely attribute them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/05\/new-york-times-perplexity-ai-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e836b3c9d9a0ed03c33364b86e05b0fe9c173305\/342_0_3423_2739\/master\/3423.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6be314b20952b7ed960f520280ea9c88\" title=\"New York Times sues AI startup for \u2018illegal\u2019 copying of millions of articles\" \/>Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted content<br \/>\nThe New York Times sued an embattled artificial intelligence startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegally copying millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists\u2019 work without permission en masse.<br \/>\nThe Times said that Perplexity AI was also violating its trademarks under the Lanham Act, claiming the startup\u2019s generative AI products create fabricated content, or \u201challucinations\u201d, and falsely attribute them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted content The New York Times sued an embattled artificial intelligence startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegally copying millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists\u2019 work without permission en masse. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/new-york-times-sues-ai-startup-for-illegal-copying-of-millions-of-articles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York Times sues AI startup for \u2018illegal\u2019 copying of millions of articles<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}