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What Perplexity Gets Wrong About Aggregation

What Perplexity Gets Wrong About Aggregation

The AI-powered "answer engine" is in hot water with the media. Here's how Perplexity could make aggregating scoops great again.

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Pete Pachal
Jul 01, 2024
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It's been a lousy couple of weeks for Perplexity.

Ever since the AI-powered "answer engine" was caught republishing significant parts of a Forbes scoop on a drone company backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt — including the artwork — the media have been in full pile-on mode. Wired did a full inventory of Perplexity's sins, which included bypassing a …

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