Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed
Companies plant fake content (mountweazels) to detect unauthorized scraping; Reddit used a Google-crawl-only test post to catch Perplexity displaying scraped content.
Anthropic bot crawlers feast on web content and give little back, a new ranking shows
AI companies heavily crawl websites for training data while returning minimal referral traffic, undermining the web's traditional data-for-traffic exchange.