CNN Sues AI Firm Perplexity, Alleging It Engaged in ‘Massive Copyright Infringement’

Lawsuit is the network’s first against an artificial-intelligence company

By Corbin Bolies

Corbin Bolies

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CNN has sued Perplexity, alleging the AI company infringed the news network’s copyrights and trademarks by illegally copying and distributing content without its consent.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused Perplexity of scraping more than 17,000 CNN stories, photos, videos and other content and using that to train its products. The complaint is the network’s first legal case against an AI company seeking to protect its copyrights — and is believed to the first litigation in this area by a TV network — though news companies including the New York Times, Dow Jones (publisher of the Wall Street Journal) and the New York Post have filed similar lawsuits against Perplexity. Other news publishers, including Time and USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett), have struck deals with the company.

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