AI search engine Perplexity is facing a new headache amid its fraught relationship with publishers: another copyright lawsuit. The suit is filed on behalf of two of Japan’s largest media groups, Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun, and accuses the company of copying and storing article content and ignoring a “technical measure” designed to prevent this from happening. The media groups are seeking damages of ¥2.2 billion ($15 million) each.
The lawsuit is a setback to the AI search engine’s efforts to play nice with online publishers, especially media organizations, whose content it heavily relies on to produce its AI answers.
