Legal Threats, Google Competition Loom Over Perplexity’s ‘Newbie CEO’
Aravind Srinivas didn’t set out to earn a reputation as one of the media’s biggest tech villains. It just kind of happened.Over the summer, Forbes and Wired angrily accused Srivinas’ AI search startup, Perplexity, of plagiarizing their paywalled content. In one case, Perplexity had lifted portions of a Forbes story and used it in a new product that summarizes news stories. In the other instance, a Wired reporter found that Perplexity’s search engine tried to pass off Wired content as its own whe...
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