moorshouJun 27, 2024
Joseph Cox
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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Jun 27, 2024 at 3:36pmWeb
Show threadRichard CantzlerJun 27, 2024

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

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