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> 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 o
by 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.