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I didn’t write they would. I said “like”. The next perplexity will show ads.

The attention economy will not die. Because it’s hasn’t for the last 100 years. The profits just shift to where the attention is now.



Fair enough, I agree with that. Hell, we may not need a next Perplexity, this one may very well enshittify couple years down the line - as it happens to almost any service offered commercially on the Internet. I was just saying it isn't happening now - for the moment, Perplexity has arguably much better moral standing than most of the websites they scrape or allow users to one-off browse.




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