Apparely, the New York Times has se a letter to the artificial ielligence search engine startup Perplexity asking it not to use the site’s coe. This startup also responded that the facts in the world are not subject to property rights.
The New York Times media says about the ban on the use of its coe by the startup Perplexity:
“Perplexity and its business partners have been unfairly profiting from the Times’ expressive journalism, accurate investigative coe, and edited journalism without permission.”
The New York Times has banned the use of its coe to train artificial ielligence models. Now Perplexity search engine crawlers are also banned from accessing this site.
Perplexity commes on this New York Times stateme
In a stateme from Sarah Platnick, a spokeswoman for Perplexity, the startup says it won’t remove coe for AI training, arguing that “no organization owns the copyright to the facts” to somehow defend Perplexity’s move to “publish true and correct coe.” .
The startup plans to officially respond to the New York Times notice by October 30.
Perplexity has this to say:
“We believe in transparency and have a public page on our website that explains our coe policies and how we use web coe. We don’t collect data for base models, but instead index web pages and display actual coe as citations to direct users to the correct answers when they ask a question. The law says that no organization owns the copyright on facts. This is what allows us to have a rich and open information ecosystem. “Not to meion, the law also allows news organizations to report on issues previously covered by another news agency.”
Following legal troubles over the summer, Perplexity struck deals with some publishers to share advertising revenue and subscriptions with Fortune, Time and The Texas Tribune.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, has stated that he has “no ierest in conflict with anyone” and is ierested in “working with every single publisher, including the New York Times.”
