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Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by luckman212 »

maeil wrote: post #127
Yawrehto wrote: post #91

There are different types of merge. There's the 'look at it! It just makes sense !' type. There's the 'we wanted to do this thing but you're already doing it' merge. There's the 'let's be a monopoly!' merge, and its sibling, 'you are getting in the way of my aspirations to be a monopoly' merge. There's the quiet merge to deal with debts, the making-it-formal-but-functionally-we-were-already-merged, the hey-that-colla…

The "incredible free PR for almost no effort or money" pretend-merge. Suddenly tens of millions of people are hearing about Perplexity who hadn't heard of it so far.

My dad (80 years old) just called yesterday to tell me about this cool new app he found- Perplexity. So I guess the PR is working...

Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by dmazin »

gitaarik wrote: post #122
dmazin wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He might say that, but I think in fact the opposite is true. The models are getting commodified. The real value lies in distribution (access to customers) and consumer product skills.

Yeah, but the distributers are always depend on the models. And they'll have to pay their licenses. And the ones who control the model have quite an influence on all of us.

They don’t have to pay for licenses for open models. Although I’m not sure if Meta’s licenses have some sort of restriction on who can use it.

Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by quantadev »

bdangubic wrote: post #130
quantadev wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw, Silicon Valley doesn't want everything banned. They just want all ideas that go against their world view banned. lol.

99% of Facebook employees (including Zuck himself) were strongly in favor of censoring all conservative viewpoints, as well, and were in lock-step with Big Gov't controlling speech. how can you write this with the straight face when top like 100 accounts spreading shit on Facebook are right-wing nutcases. Give me on popular left-wing nutcase on Facebook?! believing that conservative views on any social media platform…

Sorry dude. Nobody believes any of that in 2025. The claim that conservatives weren't being singled out on Social Media is laughable nowadays. All the companies have ADMITTED doing it. The Gov't has ADMITTED doing it.

I mean, conservatives were getting censored/attacked even for true things like saying COVID might have leaked from a lab, that there are only two sexes, that Hunter Laptop was real, that FBI lied on FISA warrant, that people meds are have horse-versions of them, Biden is senile, and on and on and on for countless other things.

Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by quantadev »

viraptor wrote: post #120
quantadev wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm generally in favor of Free Speech, but after Silicon Valley censored conservatives for a decade, during the entire Cancel Culture era, I think for them (liberals) to get to experience what it feels like to be censored themselves is probably a good thing. A good learning experience for them to begin to understand first hand how it feels, and what they did to others, without remorse, and with ill intent, for a deca…

"Yes, yes, that will show them... Fair play." In the background, the country burning.

Every Democrat in the DC Swamp is quaking in their boots right now out of fear that the Republicans might do to them what they did to the Republicans. They expect it to happen, because being so revenge-oriented themselves, they know it's what they'd do.

The difference is that, unlike liberals, Conservatives (especially MAGA) are God-fearing law-and-order abiding people, not motivated by hate, and not the evildoers that they were falsely accused of being, by the insane left and their Senile POTUS, for the past 8 years.

So don't worry, Democrats have nothing to fear but the exposing of their hypocrisy, and more loss of reputation as more truths come out.

Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by bdangubic »

quantadev wrote: post #134
bdangubic wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99% of Facebook employees (including Zuck himself) were strongly in favor of censoring all conservative viewpoints, as well, and were in lock-step with Big Gov't controlling speech. how can you write this with the straight face when top like 100 accounts spreading shit on Facebook are right-wing nutcases. Give me on popular left-wing nutcase on Facebook?! believing that conservative views on any social media platform…

Sorry dude. Nobody believes any of that in 2025. The claim that conservatives weren't being singled out on Social Media is laughable nowadays. All the companies have ADMITTED doing it. The Gov't has ADMITTED doing it. I mean, conservatives were getting censored/attacked even for true things like saying COVID might have leaked from a lab, that there are only two sexes, that Hunter Laptop was real, that FBI lied on FIS…

kind of cool seeing where you are getting your “information” :) godspeed with all that!

Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by quantadev »

bdangubic wrote: post #136
quantadev wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry dude. Nobody believes any of that in 2025. The claim that conservatives weren't being singled out on Social Media is laughable nowadays. All the companies have ADMITTED doing it. The Gov't has ADMITTED doing it. I mean, conservatives were getting censored/attacked even for true things like saying COVID might have leaked from a lab, that there are only two sexes, that Hunter Laptop was real, that FBI lied on FIS…

kind of cool seeing where you are getting your “information” :) godspeed with all that!

Even CNN/MSM admits all of this nowadays, and you know it, but won't admit it.

Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by Yawrehto »

cyanydeez wrote: post #117
Yawrehto wrote: post #91

There are different types of merge. There's the 'look at it! It just makes sense !' type. There's the 'we wanted to do this thing but you're already doing it' merge. There's the 'let's be a monopoly!' merge, and its sibling, 'you are getting in the way of my aspirations to be a monopoly' merge. There's the quiet merge to deal with debts, the making-it-formal-but-functionally-we-were-already-merged, the hey-that-colla…

The 'we need training data' merge?

Oh yes, how did I forget about that?

Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

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Post by eth0up »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #123
paxys wrote: post #51

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Perplexity is useful as a thin layer of product over a base model. As Sam Altman said, eventually all such startups will be steamrolled by companies that own the models.

I have been using / fanboi'ing Perplexity since January 2022; overall, I am disappointed in the direction their product has been heading. While it is still the first URL I visit when I want apprentice-level help, I don't think this will be true for much longer. If anybody at perplexity wants my more-direct feedback (beyond what I've submitted via your platform's conversations), my postal is listed in /hn/bio (I do no…

I'm pretty sure no one at Perplexity cares. That's my honest, genuine, sober impression based on my own experience.
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