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Cloudflare vs. Perplexity:Why AI Scraping Without Paying Is Digital Theft [video]

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by real-hacker • 12 months ago

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real-hacker• 12 months ago

In this episode of The Gilfoyle Show, we break down the brewing conflict between Cloudflare and Perplexity AI. Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of stealth web scraping that ignores robots.txt, while Perplexity claims it’s just “extending user requests.” We explain why this isn’t like Google’s crawling days, why content creators are losing ad revenue, and why AI companies should pay for the content they use or face regulation.

tmrtn• 11 months ago

tl;dr Perplexity needs to grow up and web publishers need to band together and form a coalition. Start with copyright.sh meta tags.

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