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[–] misk@piefed.social -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

The Perplexity-powered ‘Truth Search AI’ tool appears to selectively source from conservative media.

Alternative take: it’s not as much selective as it is driven by licensing costs. Publishers want money for their data and conservatives found little value added compared to what they’d need to pay. Also, Truth Social user doesn’t want to see other sources and it’s a business (or business / grift) after all. It’s effectively the same but has a way different sound to it, doesn’t it?

The Verge is insufferable with how it became a Democratic Party newsletter lately. I still keep them in my RSS reader but have to apply increasing amount of filtering of political content because bias doesn’t even begin to describe it.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Do Perplexity AI end business users get no choice as to what underlying data they get access to and buy it like you buy cable TV? Honest question.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

They can customize it with master/system prompts. But they are limited to the models trained by them.

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