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Perplexity AI: the answer engine with a lot of question marks

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Sean Hollister
Perplexity CEO’s answers are weak.

Fast Company asked him why his AI search engine is ripping content from paywalled news outlets like Wired, and... hoo boy. He attempted to shift blame to “third-party web crawlers,” refused to identify which ones, said it was too “complicated” to just stop doing that, and suggested it’s not technically illegal to ignore robots.txt. Sure.

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