Perplexity offers free Enterprise AI seats to police, prompting expert concerns

Perplexity has launched a program it calls Perplexity for Public Safety Organizations that offers one free year of its Enterprise Pro tier for up to 200 seats to public safety professionals, including police, with discount options for larger agencies. The company says the service is intended to help officers make more informed decisions in real time and to automate routine tasks such as generating descriptions of crime scene photos, analyzing news stories and body camera transcripts, and turning investigators' notes into polished, structured reports.

A Perplexity spokesperson said the company post-trains models from other developers such as OpenAI and Anthropic to minimize hallucination, but a study by the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC found Perplexity and other chatbots frequently produced responses with at least one significant issue related to accuracy or sourcing.

Experts warned these tools remain fallible—prone to hallucination, inaccuracy and cultural biases—and that minor errors in law enforcement contexts can have serious consequences.

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