Perplexity AI will soon start sharing advertising revenue with news publishers when its chatbot surfaces their content in response to a user query, a move that appears designed to assuage critics that have accused the startup of plagiarism and unethical web scraping. Dmitry Shevelenko, Perplexity’s head of business, told TechCrunch that the company was actually exploring the program in January, before publishers started leveling accusations. Source: Perplexity details plan to share ad revenue with outlets cited by its AI chatbot