US EditionBBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use
GREATER LONDON, ENGLAND, JUN 20 – The BBC demands Perplexity delete copied content and pay compensation, citing 17% of AI-generated summaries had significant inaccuracies, marking its first legal step against unauthorized AI use.
- The BBC has demanded that AI firm Perplexity stop using its content without permission and delete any BBC material it holds.
- The BBC cited research that Perplexity AI was inaccurately summarizing news stories, including BBC content, which undermined trust in the BBC.
- Perplexity responded that the BBC's claims were opportunistic and showed a misunderstanding of tech and IP laws.
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A new dispute is emerging for Perplexity, the search engine boosted with artificial intelligence (AI). This time, it is the BBC that threatens to sue him. The issue is the unauthorized use of content produced by the British public media. A case that revives the debate on copyright in the AI era.
BBC threatens AI firm Perplexity over content scraping
Britain's public broadcaster issued a legal threat to U.S. AI company Perplexity, which the BBC claims scraped its website to train language models. How did it get caught? Because it's reproducing the text of BBC News stories verbatim. The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immediately stops using BBC content, deletes any it holds, and proposes financial compensation for the material it has already used.It — R…
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The BBC has sent a legal threat to Perplexity, citing allegations that the AI startup is scraping the British national broadcaster’s content. In one of its first major copyright interventions in the AI age, the BBC claimed that Perplexity’s ChatGPT-style search tool was “trained using BBC content.” The corporation outlined its concerns in a letter seen by the Financial Times newspaper. The BBC confirmed that a legal warning had been issued, …
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