Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again The company's bots appear to be 'stealth crawling' sites that have them blocked.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites.

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AI startup Perplexity is accused of scraping content from websites that block such actions. Cloudflare reported deceptive methods used by Perplexity to bypass restrictions.

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Meanwhile, sales organizations are using AI agents to gather data on potential customers. These AI sales agents can scour the web and social media for information.

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.