Thursday, June 20, 2024

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

Headline of the day! Perplexing! 😊

"Is Perplexity all that it says it is? Forbes recently accused Perplexity of plagiarizing its content. Now, a Wired investigation has found that Perplexity is able to answer queries in real-time because it surreptitiously scrapes parts of websites that operators don’t want accessed by bots, despite claiming it doesn’t do that."

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.

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