A WIRED investigation has shown that Perplexity–the #AI-powered search #startup that Forbes has accused of stealing its content–is surreptitiously scraping the internet and making things up out of thin air. Our investigation shows that Perplexity is using crawlers to visit and download parts of websites from which #developers had tried to block it, in violation of its own publicly stated #policy. Backed by #Jeff Bezos’ family office and by NVIDIA, among others, Perplexity has said it is worth a billion dollars based on its most recent fundraising round. AI is teaching us that creativity is more valuable and in demand than ever. But how do we ensure that creators and creative economies survive? Have your say in the comments.
Perplexity is outdated. The next generation (wired friendly :D) https://truthtalker.ai
Esse Mcniel
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The content of the creative's mind and the quality of their attitude about human value is important. Just like everyone who takes part in that process. I look forward to unionization of all creatives. This is essential to protect poorer workers intellectual property rights and personal freedom.
Maruf Yunus
1w
Very interesting! I think when things get really popular with huge financial backing and people find the usage, they forget/ignore. I wonder how will the regulators act on these findings? Is this the new reality that almost beyond our control? If yes, then there needs be some better rules around web scrapping and usage inside AI. Look at the evolution of crypto currency.
I've been saying this since it became available for public use: it is nothing less than another FTX.
Wired is a bullshit machine.
🤦♂️ promising platform but I hear they're have a range of issues that they can work on. The hype pushed them to quickly perhaps. Jigso AI
Darren Rush
1w
This article, sponsored by Google.
Markus Hickl
1w
Ouch 🤕
Chief Investment Officer @ Microbit Capital | AI in finance | SFC-licensed asset management | Professor of Finance
1wI read the whole article - I am compelled to write this comment because the title implied Perplexity committed fraud. But no - it is a hit piece. 90% of the content is about 1) it uses passages or articles without attribution - it's basically the owner of Wired is pissed its articles are accessible by Perplexity whilst losing traffic and 2) it may sometimes summarize inaccurately or hallucinate - this is a fairly old and common issue for LLM. So Perplexity is not a fraud - it's summarizing information from good sources but it "plagiarizes" - i.e. copying part of the article in summarizing questions (but then, not completely). In the end, it sounds like an imperfect product but it's trying to do what it promises to do. The Wired seems to be nefarious - it keeps repeating the same point ("it's stealing my articles!"). This can be solved by simply contacting the company to provide links to users with better prompt engineering.