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The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other. Entire industries will reorient around it. Businesses will distinguish themselves by how well they use it.

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Plagiarism engines like Perplexity and Arc Search have attracted millions of users by ripping off other people’s work, depriving publishers of the traffic and advertising revenue that once sustained them. The results have been successful enough that Google is following them.

This should not stand but we need new business models

https://www.platformer.news/how-to-stop-perplexity-oreilly-ai-publishing/?ref=platformer-newsletter
#Artificial Intelligence

How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI

Plagiarism engines like Perplexity and Arc Search have attracted millions of users by ripping off other people’s work, depriving publishers of the traffic and advertising revenue that once sustained them. The results have been successful enough that Google is following them.  This should not stand but we need new business models  https://www.platformer.news/how-to-stop-perplexity-oreilly-ai-publishing/?ref=platformer-newsletter #Artificial Intelligence

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The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement. The suit follows the Chicago Tribune's lawsuit against Perplexity earlier this week, also for copyright infringement.

Perplexity, has proved a magnet for legal complaints during its quick rise to a $20 billion valuation and nine-figure revenues. Cloudflare has complained that Perplexity doesn’t follow the normal rules of the Internet. Reddit sued the company for scraping. And Amazon sent Perplexity cease-and-desist letters over its agent-based commerce features a few weeks back.

I share the view that AI companies should compensate data sources when they utilize their information. (I would add that the need for payment is doubly vital in RAG contexts, but that’s perhaps splitting hairs too finely.) What matters is that Perplexity doesn’t appear to agree. The Times sent the company letters demanding that it stop using its content sans an agreement, a deal that never came together.

Perplexity reached a deal with the USA Today back in October, it’s worth recalling, and the company has made moves to remit some portion of select revenues to media companies.

Perplexity will prove a useful test case for the differing perspectives on the rules of the road for AI models, the use of online material, and even user-directed AI agents behaving as if they were actual persons using the Internet instead of machines. AI startups want to pay as little as possible for the data they use, while their legal rivals are demanding what they consider fair compensation. We’ll sort it out in court.

What’s at stake? The gross margins of many an AI startup. If they wind up having to pay per RAG query to online sources, their revenue costs could rise sharply. And that might dent their shine in the eyes of their venture backers. 

https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2025/12/NYT-Perplexity-Filing-Dec-2025.pdf?_bhlid=9abb5510a12c607752817b352b21267c66530be4

The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement. The suit follows the Chicago Tribune's lawsuit against Perplexity earlier this week, also for copyright infringement.  Perplexity, has proved a magnet for legal complaints during its quick rise to a $20 billion valuation and nine-figure revenues. Cloudflare has complained that Perplexity doesn’t follow the normal rules of the Internet. Reddit sued the company for scraping. And Amazon sent Perplexity cease-and-desist letters over its agent-based commerce features a few weeks back.  I share the view that AI companies should compensate data sources when they utilize their information. (I would add that the need for payment is doubly vital in RAG contexts, but that’s perhaps splitting hairs too finely.) What matters is that Perplexity doesn’t appear to agree. The Times sent the company letters demanding that it stop using its content sans an agreement, a deal that never came together.  Perplexity reached a deal with the USA Today back in October, it’s worth recalling, and the company has made moves to remit some portion of select revenues to media companies.  Perplexity will prove a useful test case for the differing perspectives on the rules of the road for AI models, the use of online material, and even user-directed AI agents behaving as if they were actual persons using the Internet instead of machines. AI startups want to pay as little as possible for the data they use, while their legal rivals are demanding what they consider fair compensation. We’ll sort it out in court.  What’s at stake? The gross margins of many an AI startup. If they wind up having to pay per RAG query to online sources, their revenue costs could rise sharply. And that might dent their shine in the eyes of their venture backers.   https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2025/12/NYT-Perplexity-Filing-Dec-2025.pdf?_bhlid=9abb5510a12c607752817b352b21267c66530be4