New York Times Sends ‘Cease and Desist’ Notice to AI Startup Perplexity Over Use of Content | World News

In the letter to Perplexity dated October 2, The New York Times asked the AI ​​company to “immediately cease and desist from any and all current and future unauthorized access and use of Times content.” It also asked Perplexity to provide information on how it accesses the publisher’s website despite its prevention efforts.

Perplexity had previously assured publishers that it would stop using “crawling” technology, according to the letter. Despite this, the New York Times stated that its content still appears in Perplexity.

“We don’t scrape data to create basic models, but rather index web pages and surface factual content in the form of quotes to inform answers when a user asks a question,” Perplexity told Reuters.

The startup also announced its intention to respond before the October 30 deadline set by the New York Times to provide the requested information.

The New York Times is also grappling with OpenAI, which it sued late last year, accusing the company of using millions of its newspaper articles without permission to train its AI chatbot.

Earlier this year, Reuters reported that several AI companies were circumventing a web standard used by publishers to block the deletion of their data used in generative AI systems.

Perplexity has been accused by media organizations such as Forbes and Wired of plagiarizing their content, but has since launched a revenue sharing program to address some concerns expressed by publishers.

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First publication: October 16, 2024 | 12:25 p.m. STI