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tmpz22 • today at 4:14 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

My initial experience with Perplexity was it citing AI blog spam as a primary source so consistently I immediately dropped my subscription. (this was over a year ago, I haven't re-evaluated them since)


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jedbrooke • today at 4:36 PM

I’ve added to my system prompt in perplexity “ignore unreliable sources” and “make sure claims are supported by multiple sources” and that seems to help.

Of course for anything of consequence I’d go and actually read the sources (but for plenty of every day stuff it’s fine). On the free plan btw

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dubcanada • today at 4:24 PM

Is it up to Perplexity to determine what is AI blog spam & what is correct. Versus what exists online?

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