Quora's chatbot service Poe is now allowing users to download paywalled articles on demand. Users can generate downloadable HTML versions of articles from various publishers, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Defector, and Forbes. WIRED confirmed the ability to download stories using Poe's Assistant bot, noting that prompting the bot with a URL yields a 1 MB file containing an HTML capture of the entire article. This functionality has raised concerns about copyright infringement, with one expert describing it as 'prima facie copyright infringement,' a claim that Quora disputes.
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Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic (@timmarchman / Wired) https://t.co/Gm3ZLQC280 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/B6aPwkMMK3
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"Prompting the service’s Assistant bot with the URL of [a] WIRED story about... Perplexity plagiarizing one of our stories, for example, yields a 1 MB file containing an HTML capture of the entire article, which users can download from Poe’s servers directly from the #chatbot." https://t.co/V9YOJWl6HU
WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like the New York Times and the Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes. https://t.co/bP4T2DOj4j
New: Quora's chatbot service Poe will generate downloadable versions of paywalled articles on demand; we were able to retrieve stories from our site and others like the NYT, Atlantic, and Defector. https://t.co/j5k5pEw7dQ