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BBC threatens legal action against AI startup Perplexity over content scraping: Report


UK broadcaster BBC is threatening legal action towards AI search engine Perplexity accusing the startup of coaching its “default AI mannequin” utilizing BBC content material, the Monetary Occasions reported on Friday.

In a letter to Perplexity Chief Govt Aravind Srinivas seen by the FT, BBC mentioned it could search an injunction except the AI agency stops scraping its content material, deletes current copies used to coach its AI programs, and submits “a proposal for monetary compensation” for the alleged misuse of its mental property.

Perplexity known as BBC’s claims “manipulative and opportunistic” in an announcement to the FT, including that BBC had “a elementary misunderstanding of know-how, the web and mental property regulation.”

Perplexity and BBC didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark. Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm the report.

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that comb the web to seek out data and create paragraph summaries for customers.Perplexity has confronted accusations from media organizations together with Forbes and Wired for plagiarizing their content material, however has since launched a revenue-sharing program to handle writer issues.

In October, the New York Occasions despatched Perplexity a “stop and desist” discover demanding the corporate cease utilizing the newspaper’s content material for generative AI functions.


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