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[[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, 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 ~~posted~~ IP address ranges.<ref>https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/</ref> ~~Two days later, this was corroborated~~ by WIRED.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/</ref> Perplexity responded by removing its list of IP addresses.

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, ~~citing a~~ terms of service ~~clause requiring bots hosted on Amazon Web Services to honor robots.txt~~:<ref name="perplexity-aws">https://www.wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/</ref>

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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 [[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, 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 posted IP address ranges.<ref>https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/</ref> Two days later, this was corroborated by WIRED.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/</ref> Perplexity responded by removing its list of IP addresses.
+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, citing a terms of service clause requiring bots hosted on Amazon Web Services to honor robots.txt:<ref name="perplexity-aws">https://www.wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/</ref>
+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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