AI Startup Perplexity Says News Summary Tool Has ‘Rough Edges’

Perplexity AI, a startup building a real-time artificial intelligence-powered search engine to compete with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has launched a new feature that repackages some news outlets’ work with minimal attribution — an issue the company’s founder said it’s working to address.

In a post on X on Friday, a Forbes reporter pointed out similarities between a Perplexity news summary and a Forbes article. “You scraped and repurposed investigative reporting gathered over months, fleshed it out with re-blogs of the same story by other outlets, and do not even bother to name us in your regurgitated post,” wrote Forbes editor John Paczkowski. ...