Trap

An AI Data Trap Catches Perplexity Impersonating Google

If you want to succeed in AI, a good hack would be to impersonate Google. You just can’t get caught.This is what just happened to Perplexity, a startup that competes with ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and other generative AI services.Quality data is crucial for success in AI, but tech companies don’t…

FTC Blocked Click-to-Cancel Subscription Trap Rule, for Now

Click-to-cancel is canceled.Americans were just days away from accessing an easy exit route from so-called subscription traps: On July 14, the Federal Trade Commission’s rule to make subscriptions as easy to cancel as they were to sign up, commonly known as “click-to-cancel,” was set to go into effect.The 8th Circuit…