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Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets
The startup, hailed as a Google challenger, is republishing exclusive stories from multiple publications, including Forbes and Bloomberg, with inadequate attribution.
In response to tweets about the issue from Forbes Executive Editor John Paczkowski, CEO Aravind Srinivas said on X that the Perplexity Pages has “rough edges” and that the features will improve with time and feedback. We have always cared about giving attribution to content and have designed our product from the beginning to clearly cite its source materials, which most other chatbots are unable to do reliably and prominently even today,” Srinivas said in response to a comment request. “While AI assistants can summarize and synthesize information, they must do so ethically by respecting intellectual property rights, crediting original sources fully and transparently, and upholding journalistic integrity,” the search engine responded.
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