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		echoangle 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ChatGPT Search Isn’t perplexity a normal English word? Does an average American not know what perplexity in the usual sense is? The word has a meaning outside of AI, too. Or would they only recognize „perplexed“?

keiferski 10 months ago [–]

The average person definitely doesn’t know what perplexity means, and even perplexed is itself a bit of an advanced vocabulary word.

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