as recently as earlier this year, earning praise for what was often described as an AI-powered search engine built to rival Google.accusing Perplexity of "willful infringement" of the publication's copyright by regurgitating its journalists' work online with only a poor attempt to give credit.'s investigation highlights the dubious nature of AI chatbots and their precarious relationship with the people who actually create all the material they're trained on.
Srinivas also argued that "we took feedback immediately and updated changes that day itself. And now the sources are more prominently highlighted." And it's not just Perplexity. Just last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to say that the company's newly announced "Apple Intelligence" wouldn't come up with lies.that we "have been very upfront that answers will not be accurate 100 percent of the time and may hallucinate."