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What's So Concerning About the Perplexity Mess

An AI making up stuff and plagiarizing are, sadly, expected. But violating the robots.txt protocol could be Perplexity's greatest sin.

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Pete Pachal
Jun 24, 2024
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Credit: DALL-E

It’s been a wild week for Perplexity, with accusations flying from various publications that are accusing the “answer engine” of some pretty serious stuff. But I think most stories are missing the most far-reaching implication of the whole affair.

More on that in a minute, but before I jump in, a quick shout out to anyone on Long Island, NY…

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