Editing Artificial intelligence (section)

====Perplexity AI and news outlets====
[[Perplexity AI]], founded in August 2022, is a large language model that aims to be viewed as a general search engine. It encourages users to consume news through its summaries of stories.

On 15 June 2024, an investigation by Apple blog MacStories found that Perplexity does not follow its own documented policies when accessing content the user requests from the web. In their testing, the scraper pretended to be Chrome 111 running on Windows 10, connecting from an IP address not found in Perplexity's publicly-listed IP address ranges.<ref>https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/</ref> MacStories' findings were confirmed by a WIRED investigation.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/</ref> Perplexity responded by removing its list of IP addresses.

On 27 June 2024, [[Amazon]] announced an investigation into Perplexity AI, suggesting the behavior may be considered abusive under Amazon Web Services terms of service:<ref name="perplexity-aws">https://www.wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/</ref>

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"AWS's terms of service prohibit abusive and illegal activities and our customers are responsible for complying with those terms," [AWS spokesperson Patrick] Neighorn said in a statement. "We routinely receive reports of alleged abuse from a variety of sources and engage our customers to understand those reports."
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