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Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like the New York Times and the Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.
Poe, an AI chatbot platform owned by the question-and-answer site Quora and backed by a$75 million Andreessen Horowitz investment, is providing users with downloadable HTML files of articles published by paywalled journalistic outlets. WIRED was similarly able to retrieve articles from paywalled sites including the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Atlantic, Forbes, Defector, and 404 Media in downloadable format simply by entering URLs into the Assistant bot’s interface. Claude, the Anthropic model on which the Assistant bot is apparently built, does not have access to the internet but can work with text provided to it—in this case, seemingly, by Quora crawlers that scrape websites in response to prompts.
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