Perplexity AI (May James / Zuma Press / Profimedia source)
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, accusing her of illegally using their materials in her “response engine”, based on artificial intelligence, which provides summates of information found online.
The complaint was filed this week at a federal court in New York, reports News.ro citing Reuters.
The applicants claim that Perplexity has diminished their income by redirecting traffic from their own sites to the summates generated by AI and that it has violated the copyright by copying and reproducing their content without permission.
Britannica and Merriam-Webster also accuse the company of breach of registered brands, after the perplexity system had erroneously attributed “hallucinated” materials to come from them.
Perplexity is already experiencing similar processes, including from News Corp, Dow Jones and New York Post, to use their items in its search engine.
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster request financial damages and a court ordinance to prohibit the abusive use of their content.
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