The New York Times has intensified its legal campaign against the burgeoning generative AI industry, filing a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity , accusing the “answer engine" of illegally copying and repurposing millions of its articles, videos, and podcasts. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, claims that Perplexity’s business model fundamentally relies on scraping The Times’ paywalled and copyrighted material to produce responses that are often verbatim or substantially similar copies of the publication’s proprietary work, directly substituting for the newspaper’s own offerings.

The Times asserts that this practice constitutes an unfair use of copyrighted material because Perplexity provides commercial products that directly compete with the journalism th

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