One of the country’s biggest newspapers is targeting another AI firm for reusing its content without its permission. reports that New York Times Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, an AI startup funded by founder Jeff Bezos. The letter says that Perplexity used New York Times Content to generate answers and summaries with the AI portal violates copyright law. The letter states that Perplexity and its supporters have been “unjustly enriched by unauthorized use. The Times articulate, carefully written and researched and unlicensed edited journalism” and gave the startup until October 30 to respond before taking legal action.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of “Perplexity” company, informed about this Magazine they ignore the warning. He added that they are “very interested in working with any publishing house, including publishing houses New York Times.”
This isn’t the first time an AI company has come under fire New York Times legal team. He took the newspaper to court over allegations that both used articles on their pages to teach artificial intelligence software. The lawsuit alleges that both companies used more than 66 million records in their archives to train their AI modes, representing “almost a century of copyrighted content.”
started researching Perplexity AI over the summer. The machine, hosted on Amazon Web Services and operated by Perplexity, reported hundreds of visits to hundreds of Condé Nast publications and properties to scan content for use in response and data collections.
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