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,

The BBC has threatened legal action against Perplexity, accusing the AI startup of training its "default AI model" using BBC content, the Financial Times reported on Friday, making the British broadcaster the latest news organisation to accuse the AI firm of content scraping.

The UK broadcaster BBC is reportedly threatening legal action against AI search engine start-up Perplexity for allegedly using its content to train the company's default AI model.