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Story summary
- CNN sued Perplexity AI in the Southern District of New York, seeking damages and an injunction for harvesting over 17,000 stories, videos and images.
- The complaint says Perplexity’s crawlers ignored robots.txt while scraping CNN’s platforms.
- CNN claims the scraped content diverts traffic and revenue, endangering funding for journalism.
- The suit joins actions by The New York Times, Reddit and Dow Jones, reflecting a push for fair compensation of news creators.
