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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by marcus0x62 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @05:17PM (#40692776)
The entire premise of the parent posters comment was that this is specifically unethical, so you lost me at the part where you deliberately decided to not address that in your reply.
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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by stevenhuang on Saturday June 15, 2024 @07:26PM (#40693453)
> when we get in to the business of trying to force people to consume content in particular ways it's a bit icky in my opinion.

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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by marcus0x62 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @07:51PM (#40693545)
Read it again. Especially this part:

> Whether or not being an ass is unethical I'll leave to the philosophers.

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