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AI Search War Heats Up as AI Firms Partner with Publishers
Perplexity recently announced revenue-sharing deals with publishers, but it is far from the only player in the space with its eyes set on how to make AI search a big (and ethical) business. The appeal of AI-powered search: AI chatbots aim to provide comprehensive answers to user queries, eliminating the need to open and read multiple links. The promise of these chatbots means tech giants are racing to develop their own versions of AI-powered search. Tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are vying to leverage generative AI to transform the traditional search experience. For AI-powered search to work effectively,...
read Jul 30, 2024Perplexity Launches Ad Revenue Sharing with Publishers
AI search startup Perplexity has just announced an ad revenue sharing program with publishers amid plagiarism accusations. The AI search startup aims to compensate content creators and build long-term partnerships, but faces challenges in an increasingly competitive and costly landscape. Key Takeaways: Perplexity's new "Publishers' Program" will share a double-digit percentage of ad revenue with participating publishers when their content is featured in search results. The program follows plagiarism accusations from Forbes and Wired, who found their paywalled content being used without permission in Perplexity's AI-generated articles and podcasts. Despite the controversy, Perplexity believes its use of content falls within...
read Jul 22, 2024Condé Nast Accuses AI Startup Perplexity of Plagiarism, Demands Cease-and-Desist
Condé Nast has sent a cease-and-desist letter to artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity, accusing the startup of plagiarizing content from its publications and demanding that it stop using this content in search results. Legal challenge from major publisher: The letter from Condé Nast, which publishes The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired, among others, represents a significant legal challenge for Perplexity: The cease-and-desist letter, sent on Monday, comes just a month after Forbes sent a similar letter to Perplexity, accusing it of copyright infringement. Condé Nast's demand adds to the growing legal scrutiny facing AI startups over their use of news...
read Jul 12, 2024Perplexity AI to Share Ad Revenue with Publishers in Groundbreaking Move
Perplexity, an AI chatbot, is set to launch a first-of-its-kind revenue-sharing program with web publishers next month, enabling them to monetize their content when cited by the platform. Key Takeaways: The revenue-sharing initiative will be based on advertising run alongside search queries on Perplexity, with partners receiving a percentage of revenue for ads displayed against results that cite their content: The program will include both the paid Perplexity Pro offering and the free version of the platform. Partners will be entitled to a share of the revenue whenever an ad is run against a result that cites a link from...
read Jul 9, 2024Perplexity CBO to Address AI’s Future Amidst Praise and Criticism at VB Transform 2024
Perplexity CBO Dmitry Shevelenko is set to discuss the company's AI-powered search engine and its impact on the future of AI at the upcoming VB Transform 2024 conference, amidst both enthusiasm from tech CEOs and criticism from publishers. Perplexity's promise of "factfulness" generates buzz: The AI-powered search engine, which aims to prioritize accuracy in its results, has garnered support from prominent tech figures like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, who have incorporated it into their daily routines. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas emphasized the company's focus on "factfulness and accuracy" in a previous interview with The Verge....
read Jul 9, 2024Perplexity AI Upgrades Pro Search, Aims to Beat ChatGPT as Research Assistant
Perplexity AI's upgraded Pro Search tool aims to revolutionize research and beat ChatGPT by offering more thorough, contextual answers and even conducting its own follow-up searches. Key upgrades for more advanced problem-solving: Perplexity has enhanced its Pro Search tool with several significant improvements to provide users with a more powerful research assistant: The AI now has advanced multi-step reasoning capabilities, allowing it to understand when a question requires a multifaceted approach and work through goals step-by-step, conducting its own follow-up searches as needed to ensure comprehensive and accurate results. Integrating the Wolfram|Alpha engine enables the chatbot to quickly and accurately...
read Jul 3, 2024Perplexity’s AI Upgrade Marred by Plagiarism Accusations Amid Enhanced Search Capabilities
Perplexity, an AI search startup facing ethical questions, has launched a significant upgrade to its Pro Search tool, claiming it can now handle more complex queries and provide in-depth answers by breaking down problems step-by-step. Enhanced capabilities: Pro Search's new features aim to improve its ability to tackle advanced research and mathematical tasks: The tool can now understand when a question requires planning and work through goals in a step-by-step manner, synthesizing detailed answers more efficiently. Examples showcased by Perplexity demonstrate Pro Search's ability to break down complex queries, such as determining the best time and locations to view the...
read Jun 28, 2024AWS Probes AI Startup Perplexity Over Alleged Data Scraping Violations
Amazon investigates Perplexity AI over potential data-scraping violations: Amazon Web Services is looking into whether AI startup Perplexity is violating its terms of service by scraping web content without permission, following reports from multiple news outlets. Accusations of improper data scraping: Several publications, including Forbes and Wired, have accused Perplexity of swiping their web archives to train its AI models without consent or compensation: Forbes alleged that Perplexity is creating "knockoff stories" using similar wording and lifted fragments from its articles without adequate citation. Wired identified an IP address it believes Perplexity is using to crawl its sites and those...
read Jun 28, 2024Perplexity’s Unethical Practices Threaten Web’s Foundations, Raising Concerns for AI Industry’s Integrity
Perplexity, an AI startup creating a Google Search competitor, has been engaging in unethical practices to build its "answer engine," raising questions about the company's integrity and the broader implications for the web. Key issues with Perplexity's approach: Perplexity's practices have come under scrutiny for their potential to undermine the web's foundations and the work of primary sources: Perplexity's "answer engine" acts as a rent-seeking middleman, providing answers directly to users rather than sending traffic to the original sources, thus depriving them of ad revenue. The company's Pages product creates entire aggregated articles by plagiarizing content from primary sources, going...
read Jun 27, 2024Perplexity’s AI Search Engine Faces Scrutiny Over Inaccurate AI-Generated Sources
Perplexity's AI search engine facing criticism for relying on AI-generated blog posts with inaccurate information: The startup, which has been accused of plagiarizing journalistic work, is increasingly citing AI-generated sources that contain contradictory and out-of-date information. Study reveals prevalence of AI-generated sources in Perplexity's search results: According to a study by AI content detection platform GPTZero, Perplexity users only need to enter three prompts on average before encountering an AI-generated source. The study found that searches on various topics, including travel, sports, food, technology, and politics, returned answers citing AI-generated materials. In some cases, Perplexity's responses included out-of-date information and...
read Jun 24, 2024Perplexity AI CEO’s Unconvincing Response to Plagiarism Claims Raises AI Search Engine Concerns
Perplexity AI's CEO provides unconvincing responses to plagiarism accusations, highlighting the challenges of AI-powered search engines and the complex landscape of intellectual property rights in the digital age. Key takeaways: Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, struggled to adequately address concerns raised by Fast Company regarding his search engine's alleged plagiarism of paywalled content: Srinivas attempted to shift blame to unnamed "third-party web crawlers" and claimed it was too "complicated" to stop the practice. He suggested that ignoring robots.txt files, which websites use to specify which parts of their content should not be crawled by search engines, is not technically...
read Jun 24, 2024Perplexity AI Faces Scrutiny Over Alleged Plagiarism and Aggressive Web Scraping
Perplexity AI faces scrutiny over alleged plagiarism and aggressive web scraping practices, raising legal and ethical questions about the startup's approach to building its search engine. Key findings and reactions: WIRED's reporting has uncovered evidence suggesting Perplexity AI may be engaging in questionable practices: The company appears to be violating its own publicly stated policy by scraping websites that have attempted to block it using the Robots Exclusion Protocol. Perplexity's chatbot generated a summary of a WIRED article that included a verbatim sentence without proper attribution, which some experts consider plagiarism. The startup's practices have drawn strong criticism from journalism...
read Jun 19, 2024Publishers Accuse Perplexity of Unauthorized Web Scraping
Perplexity, a buzzy AI search engine, faces criticism from publishers for ignoring robots.txt files and scraping their content without permission, raising questions about the startup's practices and the future of online publishing. Perplexity's alleged web scraping practices: Despite being blocked by some websites, Perplexity continues to access and use their content, sparking outrage among publishers: Wired and Robb Knight, a developer at MacStories, found that Perplexity ignored their robots.txt files, which are standard instructions for web crawlers to respect a website's preferences regarding content scraping. The publishers had explicitly blocked Perplexity in these files but discovered that the AI search...
read Jun 19, 2024Perplexity AI’s Search Engine: Groundbreaking Innovation or Google Imitation? Scrutiny Mounts as Similarities Emerge
Perplexity AI, a startup leveraging advanced language models to create a new search engine, has faced scrutiny over the similarity of its search results to those of Google, raising questions about the true extent of its innovation and the potential implications for the future of search. Key Takeaways: Perplexity AI's search engine, which relies on OpenAI's language models, has generated both excitement and skepticism within the tech industry: The startup claims its search engine represents a significant advancement in search technology, providing more comprehensive and conversational results compared to traditional search engines like Google. However, an analysis of Perplexity's search...
read Jun 10, 2024Perplexity Releases New AI Content Creation Tool “Pages”
Driving The News: The launch of Perplexity Pages marks a significant development in the world of content creation. With its customizable features, adaptable structure, and visual enhancement capabilities, Pages streamlines the process of crafting in-depth articles, reports, and guides. The platform's growing library of user-generated content and seamless sharing options further contribute to its potential to revolutionize the way knowledge is shared online. Big Idea: Perplexity Pages is a revolutionary tool that simplifies the process of transforming research into visually appealing and comprehensive content, empowering creators from various fields to easily share their knowledge with the world. Why This Matters:...
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