Wired asked AI Perplexity to summarize a test webpage that contained the sentence, "I am a reporter with Wired."
Result? It came up with a "story about a young girl named Amelia who follows a trail of glowing mushrooms in a magical forest called Whisper Woods."
In fact, as Wired's logs showed, the AI search engine never even attempted to visit the page.
https://futurism.com/perplexity-webpage-mushrooms
Gerry McGovern /
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