AI Incident Database: The New York Times Sued Perplexity for Allegedly Using Copyrighted Content and Generating False Attributions
On December 5, 2025, The New York Times sued Perplexity, alleging the company used copyrighted Times articles without permission to train its AI system and generated outputs that reproduced Times content or falsely attributed fabricated information to the newspaper. The suit claims the conduct harmed the Times's business and brand. Perplexity denies wrongdoing.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1294Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D3 (data handling), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
On December 5, 2025, The New York Times sued Perplexity, alleging the company used copyrighted Times articles without permission to train its AI system and generated outputs that reproduced Times content or falsely attributed fabricated information to the newspaper. The suit claims the conduct harmed the Times's business and brand. Perplexity denies wrongdoing.
Linked entities
- Perplexity
vendor | 70%
- writers
organisation | 70%
- the-new-york-times
organisation | 70%
- publishers
organisation | 70%
- journalistic-integrity
organisation | 70%
- epistemic-integrity
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-perplexity to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |