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Perplexity: artificial intelligence features and setup
An AI-based research and question-answering tool that shows sources for its answers. It is suited to gathering and checking information during a content or research process, while still requiring readers to review the sources themselves.
Tool by the Otomatzia editorial team · source content checked on
Overview
Perplexity helps turn an open-ended question into research directions and a list of sources, making it useful at the start of research. A precise request should specify which product, region, or time period is being investigated. The links in the answer make it possible to check claims, but you need to open them and see whether they actually support the wording. For business or news content, it is recommended to save the source and date alongside each fact and distinguish them from an explanation or conclusion suggested by the tool.
Features
- Answers to questions with links to sources
- Research on topics across the web
- Follow-up questions to narrow and deepen the investigation
Business uses
- Gathering official sources to compare products before writing a review
- Checking background on a news topic before human editing
Getting started
- Write a scoped research question and ask it to prioritize vendor websites and official documentation.
- Choose three claims from the answer, open the links, and check for direct support and publication dates.
- Ask a follow-up question only about the remaining gaps, and save a verified source list before writing the review or news item.
What to check
- Open the sources to verify that they support the claim and are not merely about the same topic.
- Check the date of the information and distinguish facts in the source from the model's conclusions.
Sources to check next
Vendor features and prices change. Confirm details on the linked official pages before you rely on them.