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> Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election. This doesn't read to me as it's interpreted in the
by pants2 2y ago
> Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election.
This doesn't read to me as it's interpreted in the headline. Perplexity is not an AI software engineer product, it's an AI powered search engine with an election monitoring page[1]. To me it sounds like he's offering Perplexity's homepage as a platform for NYT to cover the election on, not that he's offering to replace NYT workers with AI. That's a bit of a stretch.
1. https://www.perplexity.ai/elections/2024-11-05/us/voting https://www.perplexity.ai/elections/2024-11-05/us/voting
- jprete 2y agoIf Perplexity can substitute for the NYT's staff for an essential news story, then it can substitute for their staff for almost all stories. However, I don't think that's even the attack Srinivas was going for - he's indirectly claiming that the NYT's subscribers don't need the NYT for the source of its prestige and power - its news reporting.