LCPPerplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
9point6Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google
For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social’s AI search with their logo front and centre
Remember your browser choices aren’t that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it
FarraigePlaisteaċ (sé/é)Oh that’s awful. I’m non-U.S. and didn’t know.
Goshdarnit, and I was really enjoying perplexity and its relatively low hallucinations and good sourcing of information.
Yea, me too, I got a cheap pro subscription and use it often. It is a fast way to find info for me. But I guess behind the scenes they are tracking us in the worst possible way.
The CEO also said in an interview that he would use Chrome to mine endless amounts of user data. As the dead internet becomes a problem, he wants to use Chrome itself to detect when it’s being used by a human and scrape all the data they produce. I instantly uninstalled the Perplexity app after seeing that.
Sorry I can’t find the link.
I did some checking around on the web and it seems that the partnership is a standard APU license where Perplexity provides the technical infrastructure and Truth Social makes requests to there. The AI does contradict Trump regularly according to the Washington post: washingtonpost.com/…/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbo…
So I’m not sure if this is massively wrong. Or at least, not as bad as I thought it would be.
