WIRED seems to have gotten another quote from the CEO which downplays the problem. Other than that, this article reads like a combination of everything that was said in these articles:
I have yet to see any journalist call them out on stealing images[0] (no license + hotlinking), but also benefiting from Google Search because those scraped pages get indexed and as of this month, Perplexity gets 3M+ monthly visitors from Google. Completely automated with no proper attribution, stolen images, and presents itself as the authority source.
Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898 - June 2024 (527 comments)
Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content from News Outlets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619857 - June 2024 (10 comments)
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I have yet to see any journalist call them out on stealing images[0] (no license + hotlinking), but also benefiting from Google Search because those scraped pages get indexed and as of this month, Perplexity gets 3M+ monthly visitors from Google. Completely automated with no proper attribution, stolen images, and presents itself as the authority source.
[0]: https://stackdiary.com/perplexity-has-a-plagiarism-problem/