Chicago Tribune filed AI sued search engine Paraplexy on Thursday for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in a federal court in New York.
The Tribune alleged that its lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October to ask if the AI search engine was using its content, according to the complaint. Perplexity’s lawyers responded that it did not train the models with Tribune’s work, but that it could “get non-verbal factual gist,” the suit claims.
The Tribune’s lawyers, however, argue that the confusion is spreading the Tribune’s content by word of mouth.
Chicago Tribune sued
Interestingly, newspaper advocates also criminalize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) of Perplexity. RAG is a method used to limit hallucinations by using only one accurate or verified data source to model. The Tribune argues that Perplexity is using the magazine’s content on its RAG system, scraped without permission. In addition, it alleges that Perplexity’s Comet browser is bypassing the paper’s paywall to provide detailed summaries of those articles.
Tribune is one of 17 news publications of MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing that case OpenAI and Microsoft with model training materials in April. That case is ongoing. Nine more from these publishers case The model maker and its cloud provider also in November.
When the manufacturers sued Many cases Against model makers using their work for model training, we need to see if the courts also consider RAG’s legal liability.
Confusion did not immediately respond to the Chicago Tribune’s story about its own lawsuit or to TechCrunch’s request for comment. Confusion is encountered in other such cases. Reddit Filed one in October. Dow Jones Hall Also the case. Last month, although Amazon didn’t sue, it threatened to send a cease and desist letter to buy AI Browser.
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