Perplexity under fire: Cloudflare says AI bots faked identities to bypass site blocks

 Perplexity, an AI search startup, faces allegations from Cloudflare of using deceptive tactics to bypass website restrictions. Cloudflare claims Perplexity’s bots disguised themselves as regular users to scrape content from blocked domains, raising concerns about unauthorized data usage. Perplexity denies wrongdoing, attributing the activity to third-party traffic and user-driven requests. Perplexity, an AI search startup, faces allegations from Cloudflare of using deceptive tactics to bypass website restrictions. Cloudflare claims Perplexity’s bots disguised themselves as regular users to scrape content from blocked domains, raising concerns about unauthorized data usage. Perplexity denies wrongdoing, attributing the activity to third-party traffic and user-driven requests.