A media conglomerate that owns publications such as Condé Nast The New Yorker, Vogue and Wiredsent a cease and desist letter to AI search startup Perplexity, according to for Information. The letter, sent Monday, demands that Perplexity stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its AI-generated responses and accuses the startup of plagiarism.
The move makes Condé Nast the latest in a growing list of publishers to take a stand against the unauthorized use of their content by AI companies, and comes a month later. similar action received by Forbes. Confusion and Condé Nast did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for comment.
Perplexity, a San Francisco-based startup valued at $3 billion and backed by high-profile investors including the Jeff Bezos family foundation and NVIDIA, recently came under scrutiny for violating copyright and stealing content to feed its AI-generated answers. left. . The controversy surrounding the company goes beyond copyright concerns.
Recent research Wired had fun a file type that startup web browsers don’t respect robots.txt, a file type that website owners can use to prevent bots from scraping their content. Amazon Web Services last month is reported to have been activated investigation to determine if the startup is violating its web scraping rules. After a short time A report from Reuters showed that Perplexity is just one of many AI companies ignoring robots.txt.
This is the experience caused concern on the ethical and legal implications of artificial intelligence development and its impact on content creators and publishers. In response, the heads of Perplexity they talked About starting a revenue-sharing program with publishers, though it’s still unclear what its terms will be.
Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast warned “many” media companies could face financial loss until lawsuits against generative AI companies are settled. Lynch urged Congress to “take urgent action” by asking AI companies to compensate publishers for the use of their content and enter into strict licensing agreements in the future. Earlier this month, three senators presented COPIED Act, a bill that aims to protect journalists, artists and songwriters from AI companies using their content to train AI models.
