Back to episode — Episode 2959 CWSA 09/15/25
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← Previous segment →ink that was painkillers. I think, but I've been off the painkillers now for a number of weeks, a couple months actually. And for the first time, I'm feeling that my voice has returned. Wow.
Whatever those painkillers do, they're pretty brutal. They didn't help with pain at all, but they made me stupid and slur. I almost had to quit podcasting because I just sounded like a drunk all the time. Anyway, enough about that.
Let's talk about the news. So, you know, the AI company Perplexity, now they're being sued. They've been sued about other stuff,
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copyright stuff, but now Merriam-Webster is suing them because apparently they surface definitions that look like they came from Merriam-Webster's IP. So they're going to have to deal with that. And apparently the lawyers used the word "plagiarize" to make their point. So they showed the definition on Merriam-Webster of the word "plagiarize" and then they showed how it's defined in Perplexity. Sam…
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