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Perplexity says Cloudflare's accusations of 'stealth' AI scraping are based on embarrassing errors
First, Cloudflare accused the AI company of bypassing no-crawl directives. Now Perplexity says Cloudflare has it all wrong.
The CDN then set up new test domains, explicitly prohibiting all automated access in its robots.txt files and through specific WAF rules that blocked crawling from Perplexity's acknowledged crawlers. That said, Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed copyrights in training and operating its AI systems. When you misattribute millions of requests, publish completely inaccurate technical diagrams, and demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of how modern AI assistants work, you've forfeited any claim to expertise in this space."
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