Flutterby™! : AI Bullshit of the morning

This is awesome: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again:

I left the field, as did most of my smarter friends, and my salary continued to rise a reasonable rate and sustainably as I learned the wisdom of our ancient forebearers. You can hear it too, on freezing nights under the pale moon, when the fire burns low and the trees loom like hands of sinister ghosts all around you - when the wind cuts through the howling of what you hope is a wolf and hair stands on end, you can strain your ears and barely make out:

"Just Use Postgres, You Nerd. You Dweeb."

I love that we're now using phrases like "... bullshitting, in the technical sense of the word.", but Wired: Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine, which, while noting that Perplexity is apparently ignoring robots.txt and not using identifiable user agents, also notes that its summaries are often wrong (which, hey, if you've been using Google without the &udm=14, you know), making false accusations, and getting critical facts of its summaries wrong. Further:

It also appears probable that in some cases—and despite a graphical representation in its user interface that shows the chatbot “reading” specific source material before giving a reply to a prompt—Perplexity is summarizing not actual news articles but reconstructions of what they say based on URLs and traces of them left in search engines like extracts and metadata, offering summaries purporting to be based on direct access to the relevant text.