Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement

AI search outfit Perplexity has been hit with yet another copyright lawsuit, this time courtesy of Japan's Nikkei and Asahi media companies. Nikkei and Asahi filed their joint suit on Tuesday in Tokyo District Court, claiming that the Google challenger unlawfully scraped their articles and repeatedly served up the content in …

[VoiceOfTruth]

It's only going to take one call or comment from Trump

IF YOU BLOCK OUR BEAUTIFUL TECH COMPANIES YOU WILL BE TARIFFED.

All in caps because that mimics Trump's manner.

[Alien Doctor 1.1]

"which gives subscribers "direct access" to those publishers' sites"

The arrogance of ai pushers always astounds me. I am completely happy with my bookmarks and on site searches. I don't need no stinking pseudoscience summarising any website that I can visit and read with my own eyes and intelligence[1].

I do wonder how ai is going to survive if publishers lose so much traffic that they shut down their sites; ai is one of the biggest threats to the free and open Internet I think I have ever seen.

[1] assuming what I believe is my intelligence is not a figment of my imagination[2]

[2] assuming my imagination is not a construct of the super-simulation in which we reside[3]

[3] it's turtles all the way down

[DS999]

the super-simulation in which we reside

It isn't even all that "super". It has to take cheap shortcuts like not resolving quantum effects unless being observed. Clearly our universe is running on some 5D alien's budget Celeron.