This is just some lighthearted trolling, and its hilarious that some are taking the bait. No one believes Perplexity will replace anyone anytime soon, based on how much hallucination it does currently.
It's been over a decade since "it's just a joke bro, lol baited" became the favorite defense of morons trying to desperately clutch for plausible deniability for their ass-backwards takes. If your CEO is happy to sit around and shitpost on company time, how soon until we replace him with AI?
It's free advertising for the company. Perplexity is a bad product from my own experience, but their marketing is top notch.
"All publicity is good publicity" hasn't been true for a very long time.
Been napping for the last decade? One big publicity misstep can end a company.