Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back

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November 6, 2024, 5:37 PM

• •Perplexity's Election Information Hub provides mostly accurate voting information and also accurately tracks the results as they come in.
• •Perplexity placed tighter guardrails around the election information it shares, as well as clear citations.
• •Other AI companies appear to be taking a more cautious approach to the election.

Perplexity is an AI search engine that has courted controversy by lifting liberally from news articles and skirting web-scraping rules. This week, Perplexity promised to serve as a reliable source for live information on the tightly contested US presidential election. Perplexity's tool did not end up making any gaffes last night, providing mostly accurate voting information and also accurately tracking the results as they came in—but largely because it dialed down the use of AI.

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