Perplexity is giving you wrong answers on purpose

MakeUseOf: Perplexity is often touted as the go-to ChatGPT alternative. “It is immensely popular, and the launch of Perplexity Comet, its browser, brought agentic AI browsing to many people for the first time. It was like a real look into the future of the internet.However, what if Perplexity is automatically downgrading your chats, prompts, and answers without letting you know? Well, you’ll be surprised to learn that’s exactly what happens—and up until it was called out on the Perplexity subreddit, it was hard to even figure out what was going on.”