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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
submitted 5 months ago by noodlejetski@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] db2@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Perplexity passed the paywall problem?

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Perhaps perplexity has privileged pipelines for perpetrating its pumping purposes.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perfection.

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Poppycock.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Better than OP could do

https://archive.ph/GNgAe

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] public_image_ltd@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I didn't hit one.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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:

[–] transistor@lemdro.id 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What app is this?

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Firefox has a similar function.

[–] Censored@lemmy.world 4 points 5 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.