CNN has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence search company Perplexity in federal court in New York, accusing the startup of unlawfully using and distributing the network’s copyrighted content, according to Reuters.
The complaint alleges that Perplexity copied thousands of CNN articles, videos and images in order to develop and operate its AI-powered products. CNN claims the company then generated competing material that was “identical or substantially similar” to its original reporting, per Reuters.
The lawsuit adds to a growing wave of legal disputes between media organizations and AI companies over the use of copyrighted content to train large language models and power chatbot responses. Since the emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022, publishers, authors and news outlets have raised concerns that their work is being repurposed without authorization or compensation.
CNN’s case is among dozens of major copyright lawsuits filed in the United States against technology companies accused of using protected material to train AI systems. The legal battles have increasingly centered on questions of ownership, licensing and payment for content used in generative AI products.
Per Reuters, Anthropic became the first AI company to settle one of the major copyright disputes last year, agreeing to pay $1.5 billion to resolve a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors.
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