Perplexity’s AI Startup Ignoring Web Rules & Facing Legal Firestorm – What’s Next for the Future of Tech?
San Francisco, CA – A new AI search startup called Perplexity, backed by Jeff Bezos, is causing a stir by potentially disregarding web protocols to access restricted content. The company’s service offers summarized answers from web articles without the need to click on multiple links, claiming to provide reliable information. However, recent reports suggest that Perplexity may be skirting rules, such as the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape data from websites against their owners’ wishes. …