AI search startup Perplexity has issued a sharp rebuke to the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against it earlier this week by media giant News Corp.
TechCrunch reports that in a blog post published Thursday, Perplexity responded to allegations that it engaged in massive copyright violations of content from News Corp publications like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. The startup took an adversarial tone, suggesting that media companies like News Corp “wish this technology didn’t exist” and “prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations.”
The 600-word post made numerous bold claims about the motivations of media companies in filing these lawsuits, of which there are now around three dozen targeting generative AI tools. However, Perplexity offered little factual evidence to back up its assertions, simply stating…
