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The New York Times Sued Perplexity for Allegedly Using Copyrighted Content and Generating False Attributions
- Occurred
- Dec 5, 2025
- Published
- Dec 22, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On December 5, 2025, The New York Times sued Perplexity, alleging the company used copyrighted Times articles without permission to train its AI system and generated outputs that reproduced Times content or falsely attributed fabricated information to the newspaper. The suit claims the conduct harmed the Times's business and brand. Perplexity denies wrongdoing.
Developers
- Perplexity AI
Deployers
- Perplexity AI
Harmed parties
- Writers
- The New York Times
- publishers
- Journalistic integrity
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- syndicated
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Lawsuit over unauthorized data scraping and copyright infringement constitutes a significant legal and privacy incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8