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Aravind Srinivas—Refused to define plagiarism when asked, claimed facts cannot be owned

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in October, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas refused to say how Perplexity defines 'plagiarism' when directly asked. He stated 'No one has a copyright or ownership over truth or facts' and claimed that content publishers 'wish this technology didn't exist' and 'prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations.'

Scoring Impact

TopicDirectionRelevanceContribution
User Privacy-againstsecondary-0.50
Overall incident score =-0.286

Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.57)

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Confirms Statement Oct 30, 2024 documented

Refused to define plagiarism when asked, claimed facts cannot be owned

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in October, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas refused to say how Perplexity defines 'plagiarism' when directly asked. He stated 'No one has a copyright or ownership over truth or facts' and claimed that content publishers 'wish this technology didn't exist' and 'prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations.'

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