Oh that’s awful. I’m non-U.S. and didn’t know.

Goshdarnit, and I was really enjoying perplexity and its relatively low hallucinations and good sourcing of information.

I did some checking around on the web and it seems that the partnership is a standard API license where Perplexity provides the technical infrastructure and Truth Social makes requests to there. The AI does contradict Trump regularly according to the Washington post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/

So I'm not sure if this is massively wrong. Or at least, not as bad as I thought it would be.

The CEO also said in an interview that he would use Chrome to mine endless amounts of user data. As the dead internet becomes a problem, he wants to use Chrome itself to detect when it’s being used by a human and scrape all the data they produce. I instantly uninstalled the Perplexity app after seeing that.

Sorry I can’t find the link.

Pumping that bubble some more.

You kidding? Google Chrome has the biggest market share. It’s the window to the internet for many. Control that and you practically control the internet as a platform.

Getting back? What is this, the purchase of a textile factory in 1900? All we trade these days is hype. I've transformed my mind into a fabulous factory for hype. I share my late-night infomercials with hollow dreams and empty glitz. Every morning, I wake up to a profit projection I crafted ages ago that concludes only one thing: I’m eternally destined to chase empty promises. My dazzling ambitions, my relentless optimism, my stubborn refusal to balk at the absurd—these have launched me on a glorious carousel where logic never intervenes.

I imagined changing the world without thinking about the real cost, and by the time I noticed, I had run out of backup plans. What am I offering? I’m stuck using the same old tricks to make empty promises seem exciting. I give up my integrity to sell dreams for someone else's imaginary future. I work tirelessly for a bright tomorrow that I know we'll never get to see. The drive that started all this will never get applause or a spotlight. So what do I give up? Everything!

I will never cease to be amazed at how ungodly much cash startups often have.

Everyone else’s but theirs.

Our taxpayer dollars, since Perplexity is a huge backer of Truth Social

You might as well ask with what money ANYTHING in ai is getting done right now, because none of it is profitable. It’s investor cash.

Palantir buying Chrome would be so cyberpunk it hurts.

AI needs customers. Chrome would become bloated with premium services

Fuck it, I'll chip in a couple of billion too.

It would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet

But they wouldn't have the user base, and therefore their data.

Never underestimate people’s stubbornness to stick with enshittified platforms.

The vast majority of people will keep using whatever they are already used to unless there’s egregious changes that impact their workflows. Even then they might not move.

People haven't left yet and it's already a data collecting beast. And blocks ad blockers. And so on.

Mozilla is in a death spiral.