Additionally, AI search engine Perplexity has come under fire for republishing parts of stories from news outlets like Forbes, CNBC, and Bloomberg with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution on its Perplexity Pages feature. Perplexity's CEO, Aravind Srinivas, defended the practice by stating, 'The web is free to crawl for anybody.' However, the company's actions have raised significant ethical concerns within the media industry.
AI Startup Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets https://t.co/VxKg6vMsrb
Buzzy AI startup Perplexity under fire for allegedly plagiarizing news outlets like Forbes and Bloomberg 🤯 What's your take on this controversial issue? #AI #TechEthics #AInnovation @Forbes @business https://t.co/vTpKuQVUNa
AI search startup Perplexity says news summary tool has “rough edges,” after reporters objected https://t.co/ufuVfIc0kC
AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature (Forbes) https://t.co/6L8lwpRpNB 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/kRppxnYujK
AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature (Forbes) https://t.co/ZQo5Nsq63l https://t.co/80Hn1XIT72
Perplexity is scraping the work of journalists at Forbes, CNBC, Bloomberg and other pubs, claiming its tiny, missable footnotes are fair credit. In our case, it also lifted text and artwork. Will @AravSrinivas answer our questions? w/ @RashiShrivast18: https://t.co/MvrtpixRIH
In April Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told me "The web is free to crawl for anybody." Now through its latest feature, Perplexity Pages, it appears to be blatantly ripping off content from multiple news outlets including Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg. By me and @SarahNEmerson.… https://t.co/3KK2cy7sde
The ease with which the “fly-by-night journalism outlet” BNN Breaking & its mistakes entered the ecosystem for legit news “highlights how AI-generated content is upending, and often poisoning, the online information supply,” @kashhill & @tiffkhsu report. https://t.co/kbOYWVEH6d
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was just an A.I. chop shop. — Great investigation by @kashhill and @tiffkhsu https://t.co/Qavypm5WE6
“BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was just an A.I. chop shop.” - #MediaRevenue https://t.co/doTIqzZzPD
A look at the now-shuttered news site BNN Breaking, which former staff say mostly published AI-generated content; Microsoft had licensed BNN content for https://t.co/sCeH9opf9e (New York Times) https://t.co/oreFQaW1lj https://t.co/PJX8NnoGEh