A terrific investigation at WIRED :press: (npub1ejm…4j05) finds that Perplexity scrapes and (sometimes with bullshit added) summarizes web sites that it has been explicitly told, by those web site owners, not to visit
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/
Excellent work by Dhruv Mehrotra (npub1ry5…n4f0) and Tim Marchman (npub1c2e…llud)
Clive Thompson /
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2024-06-19 17:57:47
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