Perplexity AI has an increasingly poor reputation for questionable (or lacking) ethics, including allegations of plagiarism, failing to produce proper attributions, and ignoring robots.txt on sites.

In the famous Turing test, a human judge determines whether a machine and a person can be told apart on the basis of how they communicate. If the machine can fool the judge, then human specialness can be dismissed.

Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots?

The test is not treated seriously in rigorous philosophy circles, but remains... See more