News Corp, the parent company of media companies such as The Wall Street Journal and the New York Postis suing AI search engine Perplexity for violating copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed Monday, News Corp alleges that Perplexity copies news articles, analysis and opinions on a “large scale.”

Perplexity is an AI startup that trains its AI search models on content from the internet, allowing it to respond to user queries with a summary of its sources. As detailed in the lawsuit, Perplexity describes itself as a platform that allows users to “skip links to online articles,” which News Corp says “deprives these copyright holders of customers and important revenue.”

In addition to accusing Perplexity of reproducing certain content “verbatim,” News Corp claims Perplexity may make false attributions Facts and analysis were passed on to the company's outlets, “sometimes citing a false source, and at other times, fabricated news stories were simply made up and attributed to the plaintiffs.” The lawsuit alleges that News Corp sent a letter to Perplexity in July about the “unauthorized” use of his content, but Perplexity “did not bother to respond.”

News Corp is asking the court to force Perpelxity to stop unauthorized use of its content and destroy all databases containing its works. The edge reached out to Perplexity for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

“Perplexity is an abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, authors, publishers and News Corp,” News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said in a statement. “The Astonishing Perplexity has intentionally copied large amounts of copyrighted material without compensation and shamelessly presents repurposed material as a direct replacement for the original source.”