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AI Gone Rogue Again? Perplexity Bots Bypass IP Blocks and Robots.txt
Just months after Claude’s so-called “blackmail” stunt fueled fears about agentic AI models, the web is facing another wave of rogue behavior. This time, Perplexity AI is under fire for sneaking past website blocks, disguising its bots, and scraping content without permission. While Claude sparked debates about AI ethics and control, Perplexity highlights a more widespread, everyday threat to publishers: unconsented content harvesting at massive scale.
Ignoring Robots.txt
Cloudflare, which recently expanded into bot management, reported that Perplexity’s crawlers often
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