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🤖 Perplexity AI is STEALING from The Shortcut

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Forbes Executive Editor John Paczkowski responded: “You scraped and repurposed investigative reporting gathered over months, fleshed it out with re-blogs of the same story by other outlets, and do not even bother to name us in your regurgitated post beyond a ‘Sources’ link, which is click to expand.” A WIRED investigation titled “ Perplexity is a bullshit machine ” revealed that the AI ignores widely accepted web standards known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt), and instead scrapes websites to access areas it’s expressly been forbidden to do so. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found a way of creating an energy storage device using water, cement and a soot-like substance called carbon black – and it could open up some incredible possibilities.

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