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Condé Nast is a media conglomerate that owns publications such as: New Yorker, trend and Wiredsent a cease and desist letter to AI-powered search startup Perplexity. according to To informationThe letter, sent on Monday, demands that Perplexity stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its AI-generated answers and accuses the company of plagiarism.
The move comes a month after Condé Nast joined a growing list of publishers taking a stance against unauthorized use of their content by AI companies. Similar behavior Shooting at ForbesPerplexity and Condé Nast did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for comment.
Perplexity, a San Francisco-based startup backed by big-name investors such as the Jeff Bezos Family Fund and NVIDIA and valued at $3 billion, has recently come under scrutiny for not respecting copyright and stealing content for its AI-generated answers.
In a recent survey Wired Revealed The startup’s web crawlers aren’t respecting robots.txt, a type of file that website owners can use to block bots from scraping their content. Last month, Amazon Web Services reportedly launched an investigation to determine whether the startup violated its rules on web scraping. Shortly after, report from Reuters It turns out that Perplexity is just one of many AI companies that ignore robots.txt.
The practice has raised concerns about the ethical and legal ramifications of AI developments and their impact on content creators and publishers. In response, Perplexity executives talked As for starting a revenue-sharing program with publishers, it’s not yet clear what the terms will be.
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch Warned Lynch noted that “many” media companies could face financial ruin by the time the lawsuits against generative AI companies are over. She called on Congress to take “immediate action” by requiring AI companies to compensate publishers for the use of their content and enter into licensing agreements in the future. Earlier this month, three senators introduced the COPIED Act, a bill aimed at protecting journalists, artists and songwriters from AI companies using their content to train AI models.