The latest hype in AI is Perplexity, an “answer engine” that claims to provide accurate answers to users’ questions by aggregating information from high-quality sources. However, a closer look reveals that Perplexity is essentially a rent-seeking middleman that starves primary sources of ad revenue, keeping it for themselves. The company’s Pages product takes it a step further by creating aggregated articles, often plagiarizing sources and violating copyright laws. Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, has been caught dodging paywalls, ignoring robots.txt codes, and even lying about his company’s practices. Despite claims of being committed to “factfulness,” Perplexity has been found to surface AI-generated results and misinformation. The company’s real innovation is shattering the foundations of trust that built the internet, raising questions about whether its users and investors truly care.
Perplexity’s Plagiarism Problem
Perplexity is basically a rent-seeking middleman on high-quality sources, starving the primary source of ad revenue — keeping that revenue for themselves.
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