Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
In theory, complainants could block crawlers by putting a little piece of code on their sites called /robots.txt, but the angry webmasters weren’t receptive to the concept.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
But smaller companies don’t have access to those mountains of data. In their quest to stay ahead, they at times turn to a dubious yet common business practice in tech — wading into legal gray areas in order to develop their products. One example is Perplexity, a buzzy AI-powered “answer engine” that found itself in hot water this summer. Reports re... See more
Global Trends Report: Technology, Power, and the Future of Governance - Center for Humane Technology
Not only is the system essentially hallucinating, but it appears to have no mechanism to detect, let alone communicate that it is doing so. As a much-cited 2015 paper put it, “Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled.”
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
