Quora's AI chatbot platform Poe is allegedly providing users with downloadable HTML files of articles from paywalled journalistic outlets. The Assistant bot, when given a prompt with a URL, returns summaries and files containing entire articles from sources like WIRED, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. This issue represents potential copyright infringement, as determined by legal experts. Quora, however, compares Poe to a cloud storage service, disputing the copyright violation claims. The situation indicates a disregard for Robots Exclusion Protocol and intellectual property laws, presenting a severe legal and reputational challenge to Quora and possibly undermining business models in journalism and music.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/quora-chatbot-poe-download-paywalled-articles/
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"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "6/2024",
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"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization’s existence"