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Getty imagesThe BBC is threatening to take legal action against an Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm, which the chatbot corporate says that the BBC material is re -presenting “Verbetim” without its permission.
The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is located in the US, demanding that it stop using the BBC material immediately, removes any it, and the material that proposes financial compensation for the content already used.
This is the first time that the BBC – one of the world’s largest news organizations – has taken such action against the AI company.
In a statement, Perplexity said: “The BBC claims are just another part of the huge evidence that the BBC will do anything to preserve Google’s illegal monopoly.”
It did not say what it believes that the relevance of Google was in the position of the BBC, or further offered any comment.
The legal threat of BBC has been made in a letter to Perplexity boss Arvind Srinivas.
“It forms copyright violations in the UK and a violation of the terms of BBC use,” the letter says.
The BBC also cited its research published earlier this year which included four popular AI Chatbott – which included Perplexity AI – they were. IncorrectlyIncluding some BBC materials.
Pointing to the conclusions of important issues with the representation of BBC material in some perplexity AI reactions made, such output fell lower than the BBC editorial guidelines around the provision of fair and accurate news.
“Therefore it is highly harmful to the BBC, injuring the BBC’s reputation with the audience – including the UK license fee payers who fund the BBC – and reduce their trust in the BBC,” said this.
Web scraping check
Chatbots and image generators that can generate material reactions for simple text or voice prompt in seconds, Openai has become popular in popularity since the launch of Chatgpt at the end of 2022.
But their rapid growth and improvement capabilities have inspired questions about the use of existing materials without permission.
Most of the materials used to develop generic AI models are drawn from a huge range of web sources using bots and crawls, which automatically extract site data.
Increase in this activity, known as web scraping, recently inspired British media publishers To maintain security around copyright materials to join the call by Creative for the UK government,
In response to the BBC letter, the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) – which represents more than 300 media brands – said “it was deeply concerned that the AI platforms are currently failing to maintain the UK Copyright law.”
It said that the bots were being used to scrape the material of illegal publishers without any permission or payment. “
It states: “This exercise is a threat to the UK’s £ 4.4 billion publication industry and 55,000 people.”
Many organizations, including BBC, use a file called “Robots.TXT” in their website code to try to block the bots and automated tools by extracting data n mass for AI.
It instructs bots and web crawler not to reach some pages and materials where they are present.
But compliance with the instructions remains voluntary and, according to some reports, bots do not always respect it.
The BBC said in its letter that when it rejected two of the cruelrs of Perplexity, the company is “clearly not respecting the robot”.
Shri Srinivas denied the allegations that its Craler ignored the robot in an interview. Fast company Last June.
Utter They say Because it does not build a foundation model, this AI model does not use the website content for pre-training.
‘North Engine’
The company’s AI chatbot has become a popular destination for people in search of answers to common or complex questions, describing itself as a “answer engine”.
It says on its website that it does so by “discovery of the web, identifying reliable sources and synthesizing information in clear, updated reactions”.
This recommends users to re -examine the reactions for accuracy – a general warning with AI chatbots, which can actually be known to tell false information for false information.
In January apple An AI facility has been suspended which generates false headlines for BBC News App notification Following BBC complaints, iPhones summarize groups of them for users.
