Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

The term "unicorn" is sometimes used to describe people like Zia Ahmad, whose professional versatility makes them a rare find. A back-end developer experienced in web scraping.

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.

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