One of the world’s largest media empires has called artificial intelligence and handlers of their stolen content “pirates” and “crass kleptomaniacs”, promising to expose their “murky, illegal behaviour”.

News Corporation singled out AI answer engines Perplexity and Brave, with whom it is embroiled in ongoing legal battles, but also pledged to take the fight to “some of the world’s better-known companies” who deal with them in a chest-beating yearly earnings report.

“Our claims against Brave focus on their data for AI products, which are legally gormlessly sourced and repurposed copyrighted material,” News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson…

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