41 points

No tf it isn’t.

Most people don’t even know what perplexity is.

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well whether popular doesn’t neceserally mean ungood. though I’m pretty skeptical when it comes to search engines as the amount they have to build up information wise to potentially be good is pretty extreme, it’s unlikely that someone could accomplish it without actually being known

edit: oh shit, it’s just AI crap… nevermind any of my potential it’s not impossible that a hidden gem would be feasilble it’s AI crap. No nobody needs a search engine to bring up something that you can’t verify if it’s credible information or just random guesses made by what’s popular on the internet… completely worthless.

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Perplexity cites its sources though, so you can just read those when you suspect it’s halloucinating.

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halloucinating

you’re hallucinating extra letters

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kagi is actually a pretty good, quite unknown search engine. I strongly prefer it to google.

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It has some pretty unsavory behind the scenes stuff going on though

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The article is a breathless advertisement and the comments below it tell the real story.

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Did they pay for the article?

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Wot? Perplexity ai, that app that I have on my phone and that I sometimes ask random things when I want to be angry at something and that gives entirely useless and wrong answers 95% of the time? lollmaoeven

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It is good for answering simple questions. It isn’t a search engine its more of an answers engine wherby you ask something and it will do the search and procure the answer from the results. It works well most of the time however like all AI it hulicinates so if you ask it something too complex it isnt very good.

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