AI companies are reportedly still scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them

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Perplexity, a company that describes its product as "a free AI search engine," has been under fire over the past few days. Shortly afterreported that Perplexity has been ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol, or robots.txt, and has been scraping its website and other Condé Nast publications.

Srinivas defended his company's practices, telling the publication that the Robots Exclusion Protocol is "not a legal framework" and suggesting that publishers and companies like his may have to establish a new kind of relationship. He also reportedly insinuated thatdeliberately used prompts to make Perplexity's chatbot behave the way it did, so ordinary users will not get the same results.

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