Sara Fischer,Scott

Sara is an experienced journalist who currently serves as the senior media reporter at Axios. She diligently covers breaking news and analysis about the media industry, contributing to both Axios and CNN. As the author of the weekly Axios Media Trends newsletter, she provides insightful commentary on trends in journalism. With a strong focus on emerging technologies like AI, Sara's work explores how they are shaping modern media landscapes and sparking debates over issues such as information use and attribution.

Biography:  https://www.axios.com/authors/sara

74%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

80%

Examples:

  • Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bulls--t Machine.
  • The publication says Perplexity reposted it and then turned it into a podcast and a YouTube video.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • The smaller companies have less to lose if a court rules against them, but the deep-pocketed giants are always ready to move in and occupy the terrain that the startups open up.

Contradictions

10%

Examples:

  • Perplexity has come under fire for republishing the work of journalists without proper attribution.
  • Perplexity maintains that its PerplexityBot respects robots.txt and does not crawl in any way that violates AWS Terms of Service.

Deceptions

40%

Examples:

  • Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bulls--t Machine.
  • The big picture: From disputes over the use of "publicly available" material to train AI models, the argument between information providers and AI companies is now shifting to the creation of summaries, "guide" pages and even verbatim copies of previously published material.
  • The publication says Perplexity reposted it and then turned it into a podcast and a YouTube video.

Recent Articles

The Controversial Rise of Perplexity AI: A Battle Over Information Control and Profit - New Summarization Technology Sparks Debate on Data Ownership and Monetization

The Controversial Rise of Perplexity AI: A Battle Over Information Control and Profit - New Summarization Technology Sparks Debate on Data Ownership and Monetization

Broke On: Thursday, 27 June 2024 Perplexity AI, a startup backed by tech giants, is revolutionizing the information industry with its innovative summarization technology but faces controversy over data collection and potential plagiarism and copyright infringement. The company's 'answer engine' mission could disrupt primary sources' ad revenue.