The Financial Times reported on Friday that the UK Broadcaster BBC has threatened legal action against the AI search engine perplexity, accusing the startup of training of its “default AI model” using BBC content.
In a letter Permanence Chief Executive Aravind Srinivas, viewed by FT, BBC said it can seek an prohibition until the AI firm stops scrapping its content, removes the existing copies used to train its AI system, and offers a proposal “for financial compensation for alleged misuse of his intellectual property.
In a statement to FT, BBC claims are called “manipulations and opportunists”, saying that the BBC had a fundamental misconception of “technology, internet and intellectual property laws.”
Perplexity and BBC did not immediately respond to the request of a Reuters for comments. The Reuters could not verify the report immediately.
since Chatgate Introduction publishers have raised an alarm about chatbots that comb the internet to find information and create paragraph summary for users.
Perplexity has faced allegations from media organizations, including Forbes and wired its content to make them literary, but since then the publisher has launched a revenue-sharing program to remove concerns.
In October, the New York Times sent a “struggle and desired” notice to the pain, in which the company was stopped using the contents of the newspaper for generative AI purposes.
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