HALELUYA HADERO, Related Press
FILE – Individuals are mirrored in a window of a resort on the Davos Promenade in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 15, 2024. The unreal intelligence startup Perplexity AI has raised tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from the likes of Jeff Bezos and different distinguished tech traders for its mission to rival Google within the enterprise of trying to find data. (AP Photograph/Markus Schreiber, File)
Amazon is reviewing claims that the substitute intelligence startup Perplexity AI is scraping content material — together with from distinguished information websites — with out approval.
Amazon spokesperson Samantha Mayowa confirmed Friday that the tech big was assessing data it obtained from the information outlet WIRED, which revealed an investigation earlier this month that mentioned Perplexity appeared to scrape content material from web sites that had prohibited entry from such practices. Perplexity makes use of servers by Amazon Net Companies, in any other case referred to as AWS.
Amazon’s “phrases of service prohibit abusive and unlawful actions and our clients are accountable for complying with these phrases,” Mayowa mentioned in a ready assertion. “We routinely obtain stories of alleged abuse from quite a lot of sources and have interaction our clients to grasp these stories.”
The San Francisco-based AI search startup has been a darling of distinguished tech traders, together with heavy hitters equivalent to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. However previously few weeks, the corporate has discovered itself in sizzling water amid accusations of plagiarism.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas has supplied a strong protection of the startup after it revealed a summarized information story with data and related wording to a Forbes investigative story. It did so with out citing the media outlet or asking for its permission. Forbes later mentioned it discovered related “knock-off” tales lifted from different publications.
Individually, The Related Press discovered one other Perplexity product invented pretend quotes from actual folks.
Srinivas mentioned in an AP interview earlier this month that his firm “by no means ripped off content material from anyone. Our engine will not be coaching on anybody else’s content material,” partially as a result of the corporate is just aggregating what different firms’ AI techniques generate.
However, he added, “It was precisely identified by Forbes that they most popular a extra distinguished highlighting of the supply.” He mentioned sources at the moment are highlighted extra prominently.
A spokesperson for Perplexity didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the AWS probe.
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AP reporters Matt O’Brien and Sarah Parvini contributed to this report.
