CNN Lawsuit Accuses Perplexity of Illegally Copying Content | PYMNTS.com

In its own report Thursday (May 28) on the lawsuit, CNN noted that the litigation is the latest in a string of legal cases brought by publishers against artificial intelligence (AI) startups. However, the report added, it is CNN’s first AI copyright action and is believed to be the first such lawsuit by any TV network.

“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 shared by the network.

Perplexity’s communications chief issued his own statement: “You can’t copyright facts.”

The lawsuit said that CNN had tried last year to reach a content deal with Perplexity but the companies did not agree on terms. These negotiations, the suit added, would have made Perplexity aware that it did not have permission to access CNN content.

CNN’s suit follows one filed earlier this month by a group of five publishing houses against Meta, accusing the tech giant of misusing their works to train its Llama AI model.

“Meta chose to live by its motto of ‘move fast, and break things,’ and now must be held accountable for what it broke, including the copyright laws,” the publishers, who were joined by author Scott Turow, said in a news…