Apply that idea to the journalism perplexity stole, which obviously has value. Forbes worked for months to create a story only to watch an IP launderer garner more financial reward.
I would agree if newspapers stopped reporting on social media posts, for which they don't ask permission or pay royalties. Not to mention that most articles are just rewording press agency news releases and other publications.
And isn't Google stealing the content from the whole internet and making a huge profit from it? Why the double standard. Perplexity has links to sources too.
If you pay attention to what I wrote vs what you wanted to read, you'd see the false equivalence is yours.
Pay-gating copyrighted content is different indeed from public-posted social media content. In the instance of the Forbes theft, Perplexity offered links to other copycats, but never the original [costly] reporting.
And isn't Google stealing the content from the whole internet and making a huge profit from it? Why the double standard. Perplexity has links to sources too.