The New York Times has officially requested Perplexity, the chatbot service provider, to cease using web data for summarizing articles for users. The New York Times, as a prominent media outlet, has initiated legal action against OpenAI for copyright infringement. An example cited is users being able to extract entire articles, and the case is ongoing despite OpenAI’s offer to compensate various media outlets.
Perplexity has indicated its commitment to always respect robots.txt files. However, even though the New York Times website has instructed PerplexityBot not to scrape the site, users can still access summaries of the content. Perplexity utilizes a database to search for web content from sources other than manually extracting web data.
Source – Channel News Asia
Perplexity’s website references content from The New York Times website.
TLDR: The New York Times has requested Perplexity to stop using web data for article summaries, leading to legal action against OpenAI for copyright issues. Despite instructions to avoid scraping the Times website, users can still access content summaries through Perplexity’s database search methods.
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