Back to episode — Episode 2939 CWSA 08/26/25
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I used it just as a search app because it just searched better than other things and hallucinated a lot less. It did hallucinate a little bit about me, I'll have to say. But Perplexity now has a new program that will pay publishers for being surfaced by their app. So if you went to the app and you said, "Hey, what's the latest news about this or that?" and then it found a news article and showed i…
← Previous segment →established by Perplexity because they're literally paying for it. So that's what the market value is. The market value is what somebody's willing to pay. So that would suggest that the other AI companies might be forced. I'm no lawyer so don't believe anything I say about legal stuff but it feels like it would put pressure on the other ones. So a little legal pressure if not moral pressure.
Meanwhile, the X company, you know, Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI alleging so
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me kind of antitrust collusion over ChatGPT because you know if you have an Apple phone it's sort of mated with OpenAI and I guess X believes that maybe they're getting less visibility because of that. So we'll see where that goes. I feel like all these big companies are just suing each other all the time. Have you noticed that all the news is about lawsuits now? Like that's all it is. Or court ca…
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