Cloudflare accuses Aravind Srinivas-led Perplexity of covertly scraping data from sites; AI firm reacts — details here

AI startup Perplexity is allegedly crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly said that they don’t want to be scraped.

On Monday, Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider, published a research blog stating that it observed the AI startup, co-founded and led by CEO Aravind Srinivas, using deceptive methods to hide its crawling and scraping activities on those websites.

What are the accusations against Perplexity?

The network infrastructure giant said in the report that Perplexity initially crawls from its declared user…