The New York Times has demanded that AI search engine startup Perplexity stop using content from its site in a cease and desist letter sent to the company, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Times, which is currently suing OpenAI and Microsoft over allegedly illegally training models on its content, says the startup has been using its content without permission, a claim made earlier this year by Forbes and Condé Nast. The New York Times prohibits using its content for AI model training. It disallows several AI crawlers, including Perplexity’s, in its robots.txt file that tells search engine crawlers which URLs they can index. Here’s more of Perplexity’s statement:We believe in transparency and have a public page on our website that clarifies our content policies and how we use web content.

Source: New York Times October 16, 2024 09:59 UTC