AI Caught in a Lie: A Corrective Conversation with Perplexity AI

“Recently I uploaded a large data set to Perplexity AI, trying to find some commonalities across nearly 700 pieces of data. Perplexity AI replied that “syringes” was an important commonality, and provided one page of analysis on that point.”

‘My issue? The word “syringes” and anything related to medical terminology did not appear in my document.’