
- 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.