Perplexity says Cloudflare's accusations of 'stealth' AI scraping are based on embarrassing errors

ZDNet - Artificial Intelligence

Aug 5, 2025 19:37

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Cloudflare accused AI company Perplexity of ignoring no-crawl directives and engaging in unauthorized web scraping. Perplexity refuted these claims, stating that Cloudflare's accusations are based on significant misunderstandings. This dispute highlights ongoing tensions and the need for clearer standards around data usage and web crawling in the AI industry.

First, Cloudflare accused the AI company of bypassing no-crawl directives. Now Perplexity says Cloudflare has it all wrong.

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