In a report by the Wall Street Journal, the AI search engine Perplexity received a cease and desist letter from the New York Times, which alleges that Perplexity is using NYT content without permission: “Perplexity and its business partners have been unjustly enriched by using, without authorization, The Times’s expressive, carefully written and researched, and edited journalism without a license.”
According to PC Magazine, the NYT “accuses Perplexity of circumventing its anti-scraping and anti-bot measures. Its robots.txt page specifically disallows ‘PerplexityBot,’ the startup’s scraping bot.”
Sounds like another copyright lawsuit is coming!