LOG INSUBSCRIBEPDFBBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scrapingPublishers have raised alarms about chatbots that comb the internet to find information and create paragraph summaries for users.PHOTO: REUTERSUPDATED Jun 20, 2025, 06:13 PMThanks for sharing!LONDON – The BBC has threatened legal action against Perplexity, accusing the AI start-up of training its “default AI model” using BBC content, the Financial Times (FT) reported on June 20, making the British broadcaster the latest news organisation to accuse the AI firm of content scraping. The BBC may seek an injunction unless Perplexity stops scraping its content, deletes existing copies used to train its AI systems, and submits “a proposal for financial compensation” for the alleged misuse of its intellectual property, FT said, citing a letter sent to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas., The BBC is threatening legal action against artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity, in its first effort to clamp down on tech groups scraping its vast troves of content to develop the , The BBC is threatening to take legal action against an artificial intelligence (AI) firm whose chatbot the corporation says is reproducing BBC content "verbatim" without its permission. The BBC .