Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...
Researchers detail a now-fixed flaw in Perplexity's Comet AI browser that let an attacker use an indirect prompt injection to manipulate it into taking actions
Brave and Guardio's security audits call out paid AI browser Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post Marcus Sch...
Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks
We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls …
Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says was “post-trained to remove the China censorship”
DeepSeek-R1 is a fully open-weight large language model (LLM) … Unite.AI : DeepSeek's R1: A Useful Reminder Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Perplexity Releases Censorship-Free Version of China's De...
Perplexity's US election hub offered helpful, real-time election insights and maps on November 5, linking to reliable resources and providing historical context
https://lnkd.in/... Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : The Other Election Night Winner: Perplexity See also Mediagazer
In a post, Perplexity criticizes media companies that have sued over AI, saying they wish AI tools didn't exist and prefer that corporations own reported facts
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The NYT sends a cease-and-desist letter to AI startup Perplexity to stop using its content; Perplexity says it is “interested in working with every” publisher
Publisher demands that Perplexity stop accessing its content. Startup isn't interested “in being anyone's antagonist,” CEO says.
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers
* what we do is highly technical, you don't understand — * it wasn't us it was a third party service/contractor/vendor — https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... @bsmall2@mstdn.jp : Automated Plagiarism f...
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers
The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup …