The startup, hailed as an AI-focused Google challenger, is republishing parts of exclusive stories from multiple publications, including Forbes and Bloomberg, with inadequate attribution.AI-powered search startup Perplexity appears to be plagiarizing journalists’ work through its newly launched feature, Perplexity Pages, which lets people curate content on a particular topic.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman first reported that Apple is exploring working on home robots. Perplexity’s Pages said Apple plans “the development of two home robotics projects: a mobile robot that follows users around their homes and a tabletop device with a display that moves autonomously.” It was the same information that Gurman had reported from “people, who asked not to be identified because the skunk-works project is private.
“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. “Perplexity AI's approach appears to violate these principles.”