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BBC threatens AI firm Perplexity over content scraping

Rob Beschizza
Jun 20, 2025
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Britain's public broadcaster issued a legal threat to U.S. AI company Perplexity, which the BBC claims scraped its website to train language models. How did it get caught? Because it's reproducing the text of BBC News stories verbatim.

The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immed…

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