Not exactly a surprise, but most people need to see it spelled out. Free-with-ads is like the internet's version of money printing. It works because everyone is helplessly high time preference. Also, like money printing, it's incredibly Lindy.
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Won’t be using perplexity ever again.
Reportedly a click-bait article which took him out of context:
view on x.comhttps://xcancel.com/garrytan/status/1915549450828996982
I wonder if the CEO uses an ad blocker
The way you read it, it's almost like they think customers want to be spied on... that the AI being able to know everything about the customer is a feature, not a threat.
.... they're probably right