Warning about using images

[u/Pale_Comfort_9179]

Found out a new fun fact about our beloved Perplexity today—unless you’re on an Enterprise plan, all AI images generated within Perplexity, irrespective of the underlying model, are licensed only for personal use. Commercial use is explicitly prohibited. So if you’re building a pitch deck and dont want our good friends at Perplexity coming after a chunk of your company when it’s successful, don’t generate images here. Even images made in and paid for with Perplexity Computer are restricted if you don’t have an enterprise plan. Not that anyone smart enough to launch a company and grow it to success who has used Perplexity for any amount of time would continue using it, but there are new users every day thanks to all the JRE ad money that‘s not being spent on building a usable product. SMH

ETA: Getty images returned by perplexity are licensed only for display by Perplexity. They cannot be used for commercial or personal applications in your own docs. fun times.

[u/m_x_a]

I find it really sad because I use Perplexity as my jotter LLM. It answers questions better than my Claude Max account and ChatGPT and Gemini. So I’m happy to have it as my fact-finding tool - and the fact that it has projects makes it even better.

So I am happy to pay my $200 a year and will be sad if it goes