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Wall Street Journal and New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement

Wall Street Journal and New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement

The Wall Street Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, and the New York Post are suing AI-powered search startup Perplexity for using their content to train its large language models. Both News Corp. publications are accusing Perplexity of copyright infringement for using their articles to generate answers to people's queries, thereby taking traffic away from the publications' websites. "This suit is brought by news publishers who seek redress for Perplexity’s brazen scheme to compete for readers while simultaneously freeriding on the valuable content the publishers produce," the publishers wrote in their complaint, according to the Journal.In their lawsuit, the publications argued…
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Comcast Xfinity customers can get a year of Perplexity Pro AI for free

Comcast Xfinity customers can get a year of Perplexity Pro AI for free

If you have an account with Comcast Xfinity, then you also have a year-long subscription to the Perplexity Pro AI answer engine. Perplexity announced the special deal on Threads. Perplexity Pro differs from the company's free option by allowing unlimited quick answers from a choice of AI models, including GPT-4o, Claude-3 and Sonar Large. Engadget hasn’t reviewed the service, but if you’re already paying for Xfinity, free seems like a good price for you to make up your own mind on its value.All you have to do to get your free year of Perplexity is to log into your Xfinity…
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Why i switched from ChatGPT, Cluade, Gemini and Perpleixty to AyeSoul?

Why i switched from ChatGPT, Cluade, Gemini and Perpleixty to AyeSoul?

So, I Ditch the AI Juggling Act and Switched to AyeSoul Look, I'll be straight with you. I used to be that person with a million tabs open, bouncing between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Midjourney. It was like playing AI whack-a-mole, trying to figure out which tool was best for each task. Exhausting? You bet. Then I stumbled across AyeSoul.com. Game changer? Absolutely. The Old Way: AI Tool Hopping Here's how it used to go: Need creative writing? Fire up ChatGPT. Complex analysis? Claude Sonnet time. Quick fact-check? Hello, Gemini. Web search? Perplexity, you're up. Image generation? Midjourney, do…
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OpenAI will now use content from Wired, Vogue and The New Yorker in ChatGPT’s responses

OpenAI will now use content from Wired, Vogue and The New Yorker in ChatGPT’s responses

Condé Nast, the media conglomerate that owns publications like The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has announced a multi-year partnership OpenAI to display content from Condé Nast titles in ChatGPT as well as SearchGPT, the company’s prototype AI-powered search engine. The partnership comes amid growing concerns over the unauthorized use of publishers’ content by AI companies. Last month, Condé Nast sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI search startup Perplexity, accusing it of plagiarism for using its content to generate answers.“Over the last decade, news and digital media have faced steep challenges as many technology companies eroded publishers’ ability to monetize…
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Reddit CEO wants Microsoft to pay for its content

Reddit CEO wants Microsoft to pay for its content

Reddit’s chief executive officer Steve Huffman didn’t pull any punches with Microsoft in an interview with The Verge. He called out Microsoft and other AI search engines like Anthropic and Perplexity for not paying for the information they take from Reddit, some of which have already been blocked from Huffman’s website.Reddit has deals in places with companies like Google and OpenAI to receive compensation for using its posts and information. The Verge paraphrased Huffman as saying Microsoft was one of several companies "refusing to negotiate," but a Reddit spokesperson disputed this characterization. The spokesperson told Engadget that Reddit and Microsoft…
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Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engine and share revenue with publishers

Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engine and share revenue with publishers

When people type a question into Perplexity, the two-year-old search engine scours the internet and uses information from multiple sources, including online publishers, to synthesize an answer using AI. Soon, Perplexity will start sharing revenue with some publishers as part of an advertising platform it plans to launch around the end of September, the company announced on Tuesday.The initiative, known as the Perplexity Publishers’ Program, comes less than two months after the San Francisco-based startup backed by investors like Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA, and valued at $3 billion, came under fire from Forbes, Wired, and Condé Nast for allegedly scraping…
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OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine

OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine

OpenAI on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search engine prototype called SearchGPT. The move marks the company’s entry into a competitive search engine market dominated by Google for decades. On its website, OpenAI described SearchGPT as “a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.” The company plans to test out the product with 10,000 initial users and then roll it into ChatGPT after gathering feedback.The launch of SearchGPT comes amid growing competition in AI-powered search. Google, the world’s dominant search engine, recently began integrating AI capabilities into its…
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Condé Nast has reportedly accused AI search startup Perplexity of plagiarism

Condé Nast has reportedly accused AI search startup Perplexity of plagiarism

Condé Nast, the media conglomerate that owns publications such as The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI-powered search startup Perplexity, according to The Information. The letter, which was sent on Monday, demands that Perplexity stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its AI-generated responses and accused the startup of plagiarism.The move makes Condé Nast the latest in a growing list of publishers taking a stand against the unauthorized use of their content by AI companies, and comes a month after similar action taken by Forbes. Perplexity and Condé Nast did not immediately respond…
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Amazon investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent

Amazon investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent

Amazon Web Services has started an investigation to determine whether Perplexity AI is breaking its rules, according to Wired. To, be precise, the company's cloud division is looking into allegations that the service is using a crawler, which is hosted on its servers, that ignores the Robots Exclusion Protocol. This protocol is a web standard, wherein developers put a robots.txt file on a domain containing instructions on whether bots can or can't access a particular page. Complying with those instructions is voluntary, but crawlers from reputable companies have generally been respecting them since web developers started implementing the standard in…
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