Perplexity AI Inc. is offering publishers the opportunity to share in the revenue their articles generate as the company looks to deal with criticism and legal action from some media outlets over use of their work.

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is launching the plan (and partially paying for it) with a new Comet Plus subscription that gives subscribers access "to premium content from a group of trusted publishers and journalists.

Media companies will get paid out of a $42.5 million pool when their articles are used by Perplexity’s web browser.