CNN has filed a lawsuit against the AI company Perplexity, accusing it of massive copyright infringement involving the scraping and copying of more than 17,000 pieces of its content.
The cable news network filed the suit Thursday, claiming Perplexity unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes CNN's content from its digital platforms and third-party sites. The complaint also alleges that Perplexity's tools reproduce verbatim copies of articles, including paywalled stories, and incorrectly attribute hallucinated content to CNN in ways that violate its trademark.
