Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion

9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh that’s awful. I’m non-U.S. and didn’t know.

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• sykaster@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Goshdarnit, and I was really enjoying perplexity and its relatively low hallucinations and good sourcing of information.

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  • d4rko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yea, me too, I got a cheap pro subscription and use it often. It is a fast way to find info for me. But I guess behind the scenes they are tracking us in the worst possible way.

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• sykaster@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I did some checking around on the web and it seems that the partnership is a standard APU license where Perplexity provides the technical infrastructure and Truth Social makes requests to there. The AI does contradict Trump regularly according to the Washington post: washingtonpost.com/…/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbo…

  So I’m not sure if this is massively wrong. Or at least, not as bad as I thought it would be.

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• 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The CEO also said in an interview that he would use Chrome to mine endless amounts of user data. As the dead internet becomes a problem, he wants to use Chrome itself to detect when it’s being used by a human and scrape all the data they produce. I instantly uninstalled the Perplexity app after seeing that.

  Sorry I can’t find the link.

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