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Perplexity’s CEO punts on defining ‘plagiarism’

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to dig into his startup's controversies — and business.

Srinivas also pushed back against the notion that people use Perplexity to summarize paywalled articles, which the Dow Jones lawsuit alludes to. Srinivas recently said that the platform hit 100 million search queries per week, and Perplexity is releasing products at a rapid clip, from online shopping tools to sports score trackers to new advertising capabilities. Perhaps, mused Srinivas, a world in which “scientists claim ownership over a certain fact” and “other people” — publishers, presumably — can’t control where they appear or how they’re contextualized.

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