BBC vs. AI Scraping

The BBC is taking legal action against AI search engine Perplexity, accusing the startup of copyright infringement through the scraping of BBC content. The broadcaster alleges that Perplexity used its content to train its AI model without permission. The BBC demands Perplexity cease scraping its content, delete existing copies used for AI training, and propose financial compensation for intellectual property misuse. Perplexity has refuted the claims, stating that the BBC has a 'fundamental misunderstanding of technology, the internet and intellectual property law'.