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To be honest not visiting some websites is one of my main uses of Perplexity. For example I like to watch F1 and I like to know the times for all sessions in m
by fcatalan 1y ago
To be honest not visiting some websites is one of my main uses of Perplexity.
For example I like to watch F1 and I like to know the times for all sessions in my timezone during the weekend.
It's surprisingly hard to find this information, because the Google search is SEOed to hell and back by sites that hide the information behind endless articles full of irrelevant AI slop and 2 million intrusive ads, and that's if they have it right or at all.
Perplexity wades through all that shit, gives me a neatly formatted table and has never been wrong so far.
So I can see where the BBC is coming from but I also don't really want them to win.
- bitpush 1y ago> To be honest not visiting some websites is one of my main uses of Perplexity. I use it the same way as well, but everytime I use it .. I feel icky. A sense of impending doom. Imagine a book summaries service, that helped users not buy any books ever. What is the incentive for a writer to write a book, when they know that in ~mins, the summary of the work will be available on a different site. News sites are unique in that the value they provide, for the most part, is the realtime-ness of it. BBC reporting on latest in London is the work of soo many journalists and if Perplexity sidesteps that - BBC has no incentive (and in the future, money) to do that work. It kills BBC, and it ultimately kilss Perplexity. So yes, Perplexity is playing a very dangerous short term game, and BBC is right in suing them. > BBC is coming from but I also don't really want them to win. If BBC doesnt win, BBC (and other sites that "produce" information) dies which kills Perplexity.