Joseph CoxJun 27, 2024
Turns out Perplexity, the AI company that has been ripping off journalism, started by posing as academics and using those fake credentials to scrape Twitter https://www.404media.co/perplexitys-origin-story-scraping-twitter-with-fake-academic-accounts/
Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts

CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.

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Show threadRichard Cantzler

@josephcox there's some anti-axiom here to "with great power comes great responsibility"...

"Wilth great lack of morals and ethics comes great enshittification"

Jun 27, 2024 at 3:49pmWeb