Perplexity Is Reportedly Letting Its AI Break a Basic Rule of the Internet

Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (Getty Images) Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don’t want to be accessed by bots, according to a report from developer Robb Knight this week that was confirmed by Wired . Suggested Reading Apple Bursts Onto the AI Stage with Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Multimodal Siri OpenAI Will Ditch ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-Like […]

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