Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse (wired.com) 7
Amazon's cloud arm is investigating Perplexity AI for potential violations of its web services rules, the e-commerce giant told Wired. The startup, backed by Jeff Bezos' family fund and Nvidia, allegedly scraped websites that had explicitly forbidden such access.
Earlier this month, WIRED uncovered evidence of Perplexity using an unmarked IP address to bypass restrictions on major news sites. The company's CEO, Aravind Srinivas, claimed a third-party contractor was responsible but declined to name them.
Earlier this month, WIRED uncovered evidence of Perplexity using an unmarked IP address to bypass restrictions on major news sites. The company's CEO, Aravind Srinivas, claimed a third-party contractor was responsible but declined to name them.
The whole internet is becoming a botnet (Score:2)
So-called 'AI' is a CANCER (Score:1)
CEO clears this up (Score:3)
From another article (https://www.fastcompany.com/91144894/perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-on-plagiarism-accusations)"
“Perplexity is not ignoring the Robot Exclusions Protocol and then lying about it,” said Perplexity cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas in a phone interview Friday. “I think there is a basic misunderstanding of the way this works,” Srinivas said. “We don’t just rely on our own web crawlers, we rely on third-party web crawlers as well.”
He's right, there was a basic misunderstanding. They're not stealing content and then lying about it, they're paying someone else to steal the content so they can then lie about it.
That makes it all better, glad he could clear this up.
Corporations' Favorite Scapegoat (Score:3)
Re: Corporations' Favorite Scapegoat (Score:3)
Always was. Long-standing way of shielding the company from repercussions.
Anything good... (Score:2)
...must be extirpated.
they're your agent (Score:2)
If they're a "third party contractor" they're acting as your agent, so you are responsible.