OpenAI Delays Deep Research API Over Persuasion Risks, Perplexity Launches Competing Product

OpenAI holds back its deep research model API due to concerns about AI persuasion risks, while Perplexity releases a similar API product.
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OpenAI Delays Deep Research API Over Persuasion Risks, Perplexity Launches Competing Product
Updated 4:11 p.m. Eastern: OpenAI said that its whitepaper was incorrectly worded to suggest that its work on persuasion research was related to its decision on whether to make the deep research model available in its API. The company has updated the whitepaper to reflect that its persuasion work is separate from its deep research model release plans. The original story follows:                               Image Credits:Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images OpenAI says that it won’t bring the AI model powering deep research, its in-depth research tool, to its developer API while it figures out how to better assess the risks of AI convincing people to act on or change their beliefs. In an OpenAI whitepaper published Wednesday, the company wrote that it’s in the process of revising its methods for probing models for “real-world persuasion risks,” like distributing misleading info at scale. OpenAI noted that it doesn’t believe the deep research model is a good fit for mass mi…