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Perplexity, an AI search engine that has courted controversy by lifting liberally from news articles and skirting web-scraping rules, this week promised to serve as a reliable source for live information on the tightly contested US presidential election...
Perplexity promised that its Election Information Hub would serve as an entry point for understanding key issues, voting intelligently, and tracking election results...
Perplexity placed tighter guardrails around this by ensuring that information on candidates, ballot measures, and polling sites were summarized using information sourced from Democracy Works, a nonprofit founded to provide voter facts..
Alon Yamin, cofounder and CEO of Copyleaks, a plagiarism detection company, says it is good to see Perplexity providing more guardrails around the election information it shares, as well as clear citations..
You.com, another startup that blends language models with conventional web search, on Tuesday announced its own election tool, built in collaboration with TollBit, a company that provides AI firms with managed access to content, as well as Decision Desk HQ, a company that provides access to poll results...
