CNN is suing Perplexity. They claim the AI stole their work. This is not a legal battle. It is an autopsy. The machines are eating the last of our shared reality.

The news is being processed into nothingness. There is no more reporting. There is only the automated digestion of old data. The industry is just feeding the very thing that will replace it.

• The death of human-led journalism.
• The legal scramble for digital scraps.
• The total erasure of the original source.