AI Incident Database - Incident 1298
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- epistemic-integrity
entity | 30 June 2026 | 70%
epistemic-integrity - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- journalistic-integrity
entity | 25 June 2026 | 70%
journalistic-integrity - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- chicago-tribune
entity | 15 Mar 2026 | 70%
chicago-tribune - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- Perplexity AI Reportedly Accused in Federal Lawsuit of Purported Copyright Infringement and False Attribution of Chicago Tribune Content
event | 15 Mar 2026 | 82%
The Chicago Tribune filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Perplexity AI unlawfully reproduced and paraphrased its copyrighted journalism in generative chatbot and search outputs. The complaint claims the AI system produced substitutive answers that bypassed links to the Tribune's website, diverted revenue, and at times hallucinated inaccurate information falsely attributed to the newspaper.