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Craig Hale

Perplexity accused of breaking a major online AI scraping rule - but it says it has done nothing wrong

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  • Perplexity seen to be ignoring signals like robot.txt to scrape online sites
  • It even found protected and hidden test sites from Cloudflare
  • OpenAI adheres to responsible crawling, but Perplexity quiet for now

Cloudflare has accused AI giant Perplexity of scraping websites which explicitly disallowed crawling via robots.txt and other network-level rules by hiding its identity and conducting obfuscated crawling activity.

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