Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post sued Perplexity on Monday, accusing the generative AI company of illegally scraping its reporting and diverting traffic to its own platforms.

The publishers of the Wall Street Journal and New York Post attacked the AI developer for stealing articles to train its 'answer machine' chatbot.

News Corp's Dow Jones and the NY Post have sued growing AI startup Perplexity over what they describe as a "content kleptocracy." In a lawsuit filed in