The BBC threatens legal action against AI firm Perplexity over alleged content scraping, demanding removal, compensation, and respect for copyright laws.

The BBC has sent a legal threat to Perplexity, citing allegations that the AI startup is scraping the British national broadcaster’s content. In one of its first major copyright interventions in the AI age,

British public broadcaster, the BBC has warned it will sue Perplexity, the AI search engine, for allegedly harvesting its content without permission. In a strongly worded letter seen by the Financial Times,