Why news publishers are struggling to fend off AI bots scraping online content

Once touted to become Google Search’s replacement, Perplexity AI has found itself in hot waters for allegedly plagiarising news articles without providing proper attribution to sources. In early June, the generative AI-powered search engine was threatened with legal action by Forbes for allegedly plagiarising its work. Then, an investigation by Wired alleged that Perplexity AI could be freely copying online content from other prominent news sites as well.