Chicago Tribune Sues Perplexity: Accused of Unauthorized Content Scraping and Bypassing Paywalls
The Chicago Tribune sues AI company Perplexity, accusing it of unauthorized scraping of news content, bypassing paywalls, and directly generating results at the level of the original text. The newspaper's lawyers had inquired about content usage, and Perplexity responded that it did not use the articles for model training, but acknowledged possible non-literal factual references.