By Jaspreet Singh

Dec 5 (Reuters) – The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission to power its generative AI products.

The startup has become a target of multiple legal disputes and faces similar accusations from a number of publishers as it tries to aggressively carve out a share of the hyper-competitive market for generative AI tools.

The Times also claimed that the startup’s generative AI products created fabricated content, or “hallucinations,” and falsely attributed them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks.

It said that Perplexity’s business model relied on scraping and copying content, incl

See Full Page