AI search engine Perplexity has written a blog post in response to a lawsuit filed by media company News Corp, which accuses the startup of copyright infringement. According to Perplexity’s Maxwell Zeff, media companies wish this technology didn’t exist and that they could live in a world where facts are owned by corporations. Perplexity claims that media companies like News Corp don’t like AI tools, even though News Corp itself has a multi-year partnership with OpenAI and Perplexity also works with several media companies. The central allegation of the lawsuit, that Perplexity copies content on a large scale and then competes with publishers for the same audience, is not directly addressed in the blog post.