Google Replacement Applications Are Increasingly Crowded, Now They Want to Share the Profits
- Google's 'replacement' search engine startup, Perplexity, is attracting more and more attention from users after releasing the advanced Pages feature. However, recently Perplexity was protested due to accusations of misusing content from media companies.
The search engine service based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology is said to have plagiarized an article made by Forbes, namely an investigative report on a drone company owned by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Several Forbes employees and officials criticized Perplexity and its CEO Aravind Srinivas via the X platform. This is because the AI-generated news on the Perplexity search engine which was allegedly taken from Forbes did not include the original creator.
It is feared that this will give rise to the assumption that the article was created by Perplexity, even though it is an original Forbes article.
Responding to this, Perplexity said that it was currently working on a revenue-sharing system that would be agreed with credible media organizations. Perplexity has not yet announced details of the collaboration being designed, as well as the proportion of revenue that will be shared. However, the company boasted that it would establish this agreement system in the near future.
This agreement will be a new source of profit for the media industry, quoted from Semafor, Thursday (13/6/2024). The system is more long-term and uninterrupted. Previously, OpenAI paid media companies up front to use their news archives in training AI models. It is still controversial whether the system will last long.
Because, if OpenAI no longer needs data to train its AI system, it is possible that payments to the media will also stop. Perplexity is an AI-based search engine company that was launched in August 2022. This startup is the first to launch an AI-generative product to search for information and explain it in more relevant text form.
Initially, Perplexity was available in the chat feature of the Discord application, then expanded to the site. Last month, Perplexity launched a Pages feature that allows users to search for information and organize it into complete Wikipedia-like pages.