AI this morning
2025-08-05 18:58:35.200061+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Pivot to AI riffs on the Menlo Ventures: 2025: The State of Consumer AI attempt at hype bait that 3% of consumers pay for AI services. But even that "3%" number comes with some big asterisks.
Mostly it's people trying, and failing, to find value in these things.
AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says.
In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application firewalls that blocked the declared Perplexity crawlers. Despite those steps, Cloudflare said, Perplexity continued to access the sites’ content.
The researchers said they then set out to test it for themselves and found that when known Perplexity crawlers encountered blocks from robots.txt files or firewall rules, Perplexity then searched the sites using a stealth bot that followed a range of tactics to mask its activity.
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