They apparently very discreetly pushed a Terms of Service update back on 1/23/2026 stating that you couldn’t use its output for commercial purposes on the Free or Pro plans, and any stuff you uploaded to it “are belong to us.” the Nerdy Novelist has a good summary here. (If you don’t have time for a 12-minute video, the meat of the discussion starts around 1:30-1:40, and goes for maybe 3-4 minutes beyond that. A lot of the second half is him reflecting on his previously good experiences with this tool.)
This is a bummer for me because if Claude is my secretary and alpha reader, and sometimes my pet fanfic writer, Perplexity is (soon to be was) my research assistant and tech support. At least I don’t use AI for first draft fiction work, so there is that.
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Written by Mel Dunay, who publishes gaslamp fantasy, space opera, and Jane Austen IN SPACE at Jaglion Press. The AI posts here are working notes from someone actually using these tools to make things, rather than to write about them.
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I used Perplexity to research topics for writing assignments. Now, it seems, I can’t. What use is it to me now?
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Same.
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