Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content from News Outlets

Re:Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content ... by pedalpete on Saturday June 08, 2024 @07:16PM (#40620815)

It strikes me that news outlets have been doing this for the past few years. Re-publishing articles taken from other outlets, re-writing press releases, etc.

Now that this process has been automated, they are complaining.

Of course, there is currently always an initial source, so we may end up with a few very active sources which actually do the reporting.

If we knew what those sources where, there would be very little value in going to anyone but the original source.

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Re:Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content ... by endofreach on Saturday June 08, 2024 @08:13PM (#40621003)

Reuters.

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Re:Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content ... by claudiulodro on Saturday June 08, 2024 @09:24PM (#40621312)

Which of these few sources are going to do local reporting in your town? Sure there are tons of outlets all covering the same “famous person/company does something”-type of news, but those aren’t the organizations covering stuff that actually affects your life or doing investigative work. You’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Also AI generated news articles will literally ingest and regurgitate press releases without doing any checking.

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