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		xnx 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLM Inevitabilism > AI apps like Perplexity are now beginning to challenge Google’s search dominance Now that is a wild claim. ChatGPT might be challenging Google's dominance, but Perplexity is nothing.

brokencode 12 days ago [–]

It’s not a wild claim, though maybe your interpretation is wild.

I never said Perplexity individually is challenging Google, but rather as part of a group of apps including ChatGPT, which you conveniently left out of your quote.

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