Perplexity’s playing GTA - Grand Theft AI

Amazon's cloud division is investigating Perplexity AI for potential violation of scraping rules by accessing websites that had forbidden it to do so.

1/ Scraping Practices and Plagiarism: Perplexity AI appears to rely on content from scraped websites that had forbidden access through the Robots Exclusion Protocol, and has been accused of stealing articles and engaging in scraping abuse and plagiarism.

2/ Response and Investigation: Perplexity CEO initially denied allegations, but later stated that the IP address observed scraping websites was operated by a third-party company. Amazon's investigation is ongoing, and Perplexity claims to have made no changes to its operation in response to Amazon's concerns.

3/ AI Content Usage and Violations: If the allegations against Perplexity are true, the company may be violating principles for governing generative AI and potentially engaging in improper content usage.

Source: The Verge, Wired