Is Perplexity Ask safe to install?

Perplexity · Search & web · stdio (local process)

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AxioRank could not enumerate Perplexity Ask's surface (server process exited (1): Error: PERPLEXITY_API_KEY environment variable is required). It stays unrated until the next scan succeeds.

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