Oh, okay. Well obviously fuck this guy. I can’t imagine being enough of an asshole to see staff go on strike and your first thought is ‘let me pitch my shitty AI!’
Damn. I liked Perplexity. Sucks to delete it, but this guy can fuck directly off.
You can use Perplexica instead, which is a self-hosted open source alternative to Perplexity.
I see no reason not to continue using the free version without an account, as long as I don’t encourage anyone to sign up. Does it benefit them in any way?
Edit: just for fun-
I assume that they’re still benefiting from your use via analytics and training data.
Ig that’s probably safe to assume. I do use a VPN and regularly clear the cache/storage, at least, and only run it in a separate profile
And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:
Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.
So he’s an industrial scale scab.
After many years of people misusing the word Luddite, it’s time to bring back its actual meaning.
I guess thats enough perplexity ai for me
fucking scab. and I liked perplexity too. won’t be using it again.
Of course the one fucking service that’s actually useful for me acts like this… Ig I gotta find an alternative now…
Have you tried Kagi? It gets you access to Claude Sonnet, ChatGPT, Llama, Mistrel, etc.
Does it do what Perplexity does?
I haven’t actually, I’ll check it out and maybe add an edit to this comment. I have actually tried two others though, I found then via alternativeto:
Both of these are pretty great candidates, they both have quality content formats and are somewhat more comfortable to use than perplexity in their unique ways, mainly due to minimalism. A drawback of both are that they are slower to answer but not excruciatingly slow.
cool, never using them again
Cool. That’s bound to work out really well. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
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Before this story, I had no opinion on Perplexity.
Now I hope this product dies in a fire.
