Perplexity’s grand theft AI

What, exactly, is Perplexity's innovation? | Image: The Verge

In every hype cycle, certain patterns of deceit emerge. In the last crypto boom, it was ponzinomics" and rug pulls." In self-driving cars, it was just five years away!" In AI, it's seeing just how much unethical shit you can get away with.

Perplexity is basically a rent-seeking middleman on high-quality sources

Perplexity, which is in ongoing talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, is trying to create a Google Search competitor. Perplexity isn't trying to create a search engine," though - it wants to create an answer engine." The idea is that instead of combing through a bunch of results to answer your own question with a primary source, you'll simply get an answer Perplexity has found for you. Factfulness and accuracy is...

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