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.
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/
Perplexity is scraping websites without permission.
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I mean, my experience Perplexity is one of the better AI's I have used, that said I don't actually use it a lot, I've never encountered any actual bullshit replies like the others give
IMO wired are more pissed they ain't getting traffic from the snippets perplexity uses from their site, and perplexity does provide links to articles when they use quotes and snippets from other sites, that and they "might" be scrapping data that shouldn't be scrapped, but that wired article there are a lot of "probably" "maybe" in it
again that said if they are ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol then that's not good even if its partly ignoring that standard as was reported by Robb Knight
https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/
Its not perplexity's fault if users don't actually click on the links provided by perplexity
Perplexity is a search engine of sorts anyway it provides URLs with almost ever result you get its up to users to then take a looksie
Robb Knights blog post explains more the technical side of what perplexity is doing and it really doesn't sound good ignoring the robots.txt file isn't agl 😬
Well, to be fair, Bard gave websites. It said Clinton had 2568 indictments. It’s suspicious because 256 is a power of 2 as is 8. I clicked on the link. It was dead. It came from a comment and I suspect it was an exaggeration for comic effect.
This is the problem with AI. It is incapable of determining what is a snark and what is information.