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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Perplexity passed the paywall problem?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Perhaps perplexity has privileged pipelines for perpetrating its pumping purposes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Perfection.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Poppycock.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Better than OP could do

https://archive.ph/GNgAe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I had no paywall on my end, probably a regional thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Had a paywall in memmy but not when opening the link in mobile firefox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Plenty of paywalled sites have workarounds (Bypass Paywall Clean extension basically does that for you)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I didn't hit one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I always use Read Mode when any paywall comes up. For 90% of tries, i can read the whole article.

Also in a more pleasant manner, big lettering and no ads:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What app is this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Reading Mode", it's a Google app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Firefox has a similar function.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm officially sick of this so-called AI. There's nothing intelligent about it, it's simply functionality modifying programs spewing recursive bullshit written by other AIs (or possibly by itself) that were all trained on stolen human work once upon a time, but are now just gibberish.