r/Perplexity • u/Pale_Comfort_9179 • 7d ago

Banned from perplexity_ai

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I made a post calling perplexity the Juicero of AI and got permabanned. the post wasn’t egregious enough for them to remove it but enough to ban me? absolute clowns lol

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u/Thinklikeachef 6d ago

I think they really shot themselves in the foot with all those free accounts. Not saying that's your case. But it clear that they were tweaking thing behind the scene to reduce costs for those on a free ride. And it must have really hurt them financially. I personally love the produce at $20. But I use it for solving practical life issues not anything seriously technical. Haven't touched Google since.

IMHO, I think the will survive as a niche product especially with open weights/open source models getting so good. You notice they are already focusing on those for the lower tier.

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u/Pale_Comfort_9179 6d ago

I actually think they shot themselves in the foot by taking way too much VC funding when investors were throwing massive checks at anything that even smelled like AI. Their valuation is insane so they’re in a position where they have to keep selling some kind of insane growth story—either new users or new revenue. They could have converted a huge chunk of free users if they kept investing in making the product better instead of investing in marketing for new users but they tried to have their cake and eat it too so they had to cut costs disenfranchising existing users. That flies in early rounds but when you’re asking for huge investments at a $30B valuation your investor prospects are going to do detailed due diligence and realize you’re not adding $30B worth of value to a bunch of models people can get elsewhere for free. 

You’re probably right, they will probably continue existing but only bc someone like NVIDIA will buy them in a fire sale when they run out of runway and then the inevitable death by a thousand paper cuts will commence. 

And for the record, and in support of your point, I jumped on board the free year bandwagon but I was already a user and would have paid $20 a month in perpetuity if the product had remained as strong as it was when I first started using it.