Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI:
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Perplexity CEO Offers NYT Support During Tech StrikeAravind Srinivas proposed technical help for the election and afterward as negotiations continued.
Key FactsNov 4, 2024 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: techcrunch.com
- The NYT Tech Guild announced a strike on Monday, November 4, involving employees responsible for software support and data analysis.
- The workers are seeking, among other measures, an annual 2.5% pay increase and a contractual guarantee of two days per week in the office.
- NYT publisher AG Sulzberger criticized the strike shortly before the U.S. presidential election as workers demonstrated outside the New York building and negotiations continued.
- Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offered support for election coverage, drew criticism, and later said the proposal was not to replace journalists or engineers with AI but to provide technical infrastructure.
Hundreds of millions of people are depending on The Times’s journalism on Election Day and afterward, and it is troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block this public service at such a consequential moment for our country.— A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, in a statement
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