Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff | TechCrunch - eviltoast

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers.

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    5 hours ago

    So they would be offering content to the NYT sourced from the NYT? From Wikipedia

    “In October 2024, The New York Times (NYT) sent a cease-and-desist notice to Perplexity to stop accessing and using NYT content, claiming that Perplexity is violating its copyright by scraping data from its website.”

    “The cease-and-desist notice sent by NYT lawyers read in part: “Perplexity and its business partners have been unjustly enriched by using, without authorization, The Times’s expressive, carefully written and researched, and edited journalism without a license.” “