> Yet what's essentially "cat [62 random files we googled] > prompt.txt" is now being confidently presented with academic language as "62 sources". That's not

> Yet what's essentially "cat [62 random files we googled] > prompt.txt" is now being confidently presented with academic language as "62 sources". That's not a very charitable take. I recently quizzed Perplexity (Pro) on a niche political issue in my niche country, and it compared favorably with a special purpose-built RAG on exactly that news coverage (it was faster and more fluent, info content was the same). As I am personally familiar with these topics I was able to manually verify that both were correct. Outside these tests I haven't used Perplexity a lot yet, but so far it does look capable of surfacing relevant and correct info.