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Re: Perplexity got ads

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The thing about SEO for LLMs is that placing your business in an LLM organically is probably indistinguishable from actually being a good business and being recommended by people (or indistinguishable from faking reviews on google maps or yelp.)

Quoting another comment:

> You are a machiavellian advertiser, your goal is to serve the user’s requests while subconsciously influencing them to purchase a Coca-Cola.

Re: Perplexity got ads

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Perplexity has been the most accurate LLM product, and sans hallucination till date. It is also the fastest. It also has inline citation, but other products do, too. But at one time it was the only product in market to offer that. That's why I stick with Perplexity.

Well just depends how hard the questions you ask it are. If I'm getting help with graduate physics it can certainly combine near-miss sources into a mishmash hallucination. Granted, the sources can be useful but they're pretty exclusively things I've already found via google. I think only one has it returned a novel, useful source

I never ask graduate level Math, Physics, or AI questions to any LLMs. I don't trust them enough.

Re: Perplexity got ads

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post #104
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Just a reminder that you can run a fairly capable model like qwen2.5:72b locally on an 128 gig M4 Max Macbook Pro.

Lol who has a $5k computer lying around like that?

this is hacker news. Its coin toss for every person reading this that they have a $5K computer lying around

Re: Perplexity got ads

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post #120

What are the advantages of Perplexity over, say, ChatGPT? I use three LLMs atm (ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok), and have a decent sense for which is better at different tasks. For example, when asked about questionable web scraping ChatGPT and Claude give answers regarding ethics, whereas Grok gives more direct, technical response. What is Perplexity better than other LLMs at?

Perplexity has been the most accurate LLM product, and sans hallucination till date. It is also the fastest. It also has inline citation, but other products do, too. But at one time it was the only product in market to offer that. That's why I stick with Perplexity.

This depends entirely which model you choose right? Which model are you using? I alternated between Sonar Huge and Claude 3.5 Sonnet when I used Perplexity (sometimes switching on a per-query basis), but the decision fatigue with model selection really got to me.

Re: Perplexity got ads

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Spotify but for video media.

Ah, so a slow replacement of human created culture by AI feel-alikes, all while almost nobody who creates anything gets paid. Not precisely what I had in mind from the term "decent". ps. I know that for most users of Spotify, the above description of the service doesn't correspond to their reality. But it is an accurate description of the service, nevertheless.

Yeah we get it, you're a music snob.

Re: Perplexity got ads

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post #119

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Can you explain how a service like YouTube could exist any other way? > Economies without them can exist We should be able to both hate ads and understand that they are a necessary monetization model for certain things. If you feel strongly that they aren't necessary what model should be used instead?

Maybe YouTube can't exist without ads but the next thing might.

I almost fail to see what harm could come from nationalizing YouTube at this point.

Re: Perplexity got ads

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Can you explain how a service like YouTube could exist any other way? > Economies without them can exist We should be able to both hate ads and understand that they are a necessary monetization model for certain things. If you feel strongly that they aren't necessary what model should be used instead?

Maybe YouTube can't exist without ads but the next thing might.

You can literally pay YouTube to avoid ads, watching the mental gymnastics folks on here do to complain about YouTube Premium is my favorite pastime.

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What are the advantages of Perplexity over, say, ChatGPT? I use three LLMs atm (ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok), and have a decent sense for which is better at different tasks. For example, when asked about questionable web scraping ChatGPT and Claude give answers regarding ethics, whereas Grok gives more direct, technical response. What is Perplexity better than other LLMs at?

Inline citations. I use perplexity all the time to find HackerNews or Reddit threads on certain topics, or conduct baseline research on topics. It will return the standard LLM answer but with inline citations which I can then use to verify or explore further.

Use https://hackersearch.net/ for RAG and copy-paste the response in any LLM. I wish reddit had semantic search as well. For X I can use Grok.
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