The New York Times has sent Perplexity a “cease and desist” notice demanding the company stop using its content about generative artificial intelligence, in the latest controversy between news outlets and AI companies.
The NYT letter claims that the way Perplexity uses its content, including to generate summaries and other types of results, violates copyright law.
Since the launch of ChatGPT, the media has warned about chatbots, which can scour the Internet for information and create summaries for their users.
In the letter sent to Perplexity on October 2, the NYT asked the company to provide information on how the chatbot accessed the newspaper’s website despite its efforts to stop it.
Perplexity had assured the newspaper that it would stop using the “tracking” technology, the letter said. Despite this, the NYT said its content still appears on Perplexity.
“We don’t mine data to build underlying models, but rather index web pages and present real content as quotes to provide informed answers when a user asks a question,” Perplexity told Reuters.
The startup also stated that it intends to respond by October 30, the deadline set by the NYT, to provide the requested information.
The NYT is also in dispute with OpenAI, which was sued late last year for allegedly using millions of newspaper articles without permission to train its AI chatbot.
This year, Reuters reported that several AI companies are bypassing a web standard used by outlets to block the extraction of data used in generative AI systems.
Source: Terra
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