NYT SENDS AI STARTUP PERPLEXITY ‘CEASE AND DESIST’ NOTICE OVER CONTENT USE.
The New York Times has sent Perplexity a “cease and desist” notice demanding the company stop using its content for generative AI purposes, marking the latest clash between the news publisher and an AI firm.
The letter from the news publisher said the way Perplexity was using its content, including to create summaries and other types of output, violates copyright law.
Since the introduction of ChatGPT, publishers have been raising the alarm on chatbots which can comb the internet to find information and creating paragraph summaries for the user.
In the letter to Perplexity dated Oct. 2, NYT had asked the company to provide information on how it is accessing the publisher’s website despite its prevention efforts.Perplexity had previously assured the publisher it would stop using “crawling” technology, according to the letter. Despite this, NYT said its content still appears in Perplexity.
Information taken from Reuters.
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