@perplexity_ai Agents are bots. When humans visit the page there is a chance of commerce through ads or by providing them some info about content provider products. Basically content providers get benefit of the visit. When agents do that there is no such benefit.

@perplexity_ai Cloudflare just had a massive outage a few weeks ago. Sounds like incompetence.

@perplexity_ai Cogsuckers can anthropomorphize their soulless autocomplete as much as they like, they shall not be allowed to shit on basic internet guidelines.

@perplexity_ai When are you gonna respect the robot.txt file and stop stealing content from creators that don't want their content stolen?

@perplexity_ai Serious question, do you honestly not think Cloudflare knows how agents in general work and whether they throw away data versus scrape and store?

@perplexity_ai You take away the content (value) that the site has worked so hard to create and then reorganize it to present it to users on your own platform, thus cutting off all the traffic, attention and potential revenue that would have gone to the original site.

@perplexity_ai Cool, cool but: - Will the agent become your fan? - Will it join your Patreon? - Will it buy your mug? - Will it join your Discord? - Will it click your ad? - Will it comment on your blog post? - Will it recommend the page to a friend? Yeah… I think it's still a bot.

@perplexity_ai did yall seriously have an AI write this entire response? this is lazy af lmao

@perplexity_ai So… It seems what Perplexity is trying to say is that - we’ll enter your house without permission, we’ll steal your things, but DO NOT WORRY, we won’t keep them forever. We’ll just use them and then discard them. Sounds about right? An article that could have been a tweet.

@perplexity_ai Content thieves like you are why I have to log in to every god damned website to see anything anymore. Fuck off.

@perplexity_ai Is Perplexity saying: Cloudfare, you closed the door with a new locker, can’t you distinguish between a burglar and Robin Hood? The point is: who owns the house, the things in the house and the door? Not Perplexity. The only thing I learned here: cloudfare seems to be successful

@perplexity_ai @gork summarise this

@perplexity_ai this whole cloudflare vs perplexity thing is basically "we can't tell the difference between a helpful assistant and a malicious bot, so we're gonna block everything and call it security theater" the distinction perplexity makes here is actually crucial - there's a massive

@perplexity_ai You might be asking why is this happening now and who stands to benefit from slowing your ascent. Ask sundar who he plays golf with on the weekend 😎🥰

@perplexity_ai I don't want AI training or AI agents to touch, access, or use my work because it completely breaks my business model of providing content online. I should be able to tell you NO about that and you respect the NO. Removing consent and advocating for assaulting people's property

@perplexity_ai @iruletheworldmo This seems akin to retailers blocking cell access to prevent comparison shopping in the moment. Didn't last long

@perplexity_ai If a website is preventing bots from crawl, it should stop headless agents too. Cause websites expects real users to see their actual contents, more suggestions and ads too but when using headless agents, they dont get any of these. So if the website owner wants you to crawl,

@perplexity_ai These days, it's easy to justify anything if you're making enough money with it. And we thought Google was our worst nightmare!

@perplexity_ai @grok summarize this

@perplexity_ai Except every time I ask an llm to check on something that they can fetch they are already using search index data that's from the previous day. Why isn't it fetching in real time?

@perplexity_ai You're spot on, but it's actually worse. Cloudflare/Matthew Prince are seeking to extend the shelf-life of their Dinosaur company by impeding the new Intelligence Economy rather than pivoting aggressively into it. They are instead pivoting to being the Defenders of an

@perplexity_ai Alright, we need a new convention, for humans, for bots, and for agents..

@perplexity_ai Holy shit this was a smackdown

@perplexity_ai 10-8, arguably a 10-7 with one of the coldest corporate dispute lines I've ever heard > The bluster around this issue also reveals that Cloudflare’s leadership is either dangerously misinformed on the basics of AI, or simply more flair than cloud.

@perplexity_ai If I, as an internet citizen, am able to browse a page. A robot on behalf of me should be able to.

@perplexity_ai We need to figure out a monetization strategy for headless user agents (which I’m loosely defining user agents that don’t show you the source as-is) before they can be treated similar to browsers

@perplexity_ai How will @perplexity_ai be able to access site if it's down Seems it's about instant research and not about older researches being stored up

@perplexity_ai Interesting read. It's the natural evolution as "legacy" businesses try to make sense of new tech. It's both ironic and unfortunate, but hopefully it resolves quickly for everyone.

@perplexity_ai So what’s the issue here? Not respecting robot.txt or send more than 6M requests?

@perplexity_ai Who’s building the cloudflare for the ai world? From the bottom’s up needs a different architecture

@perplexity_ai Well written response distinguishing the use of agents akin to humans asking questions. The compliance aspects based on standards and agreements in the industry, need to be rewritten, I think. Nevertheles, I love @perplexity_ai and @PerplexityComet. Keep going what with you

@perplexity_ai 1. Resolve this with cloudflare rather than attack them publicly 2. You’re still responsible for third parties you use. You can work with browserbase on fixing this, instead of blaming them too. 3. “more flair than cloud” lmao that was p good Overall shit pr

@perplexity_ai You haven’t addressed the core issue of User Agent Identity. Key excerpt: “When Perplexity fetches a webpage, it’s because you asked a specific question requiring current information.” Yes—but who is “you”? What is the identity of the user on whose behalf the agent is acting?

@perplexity_ai I wrote an article on the difference between agents and bots and I agree they are fundamentally different. https://agentexperience.ax/res... That said, like any other delegation of work (e.g. a currier picking up your groceries) if the door is locked, it’s not ok to break in. I don’t see

@perplexity_ai This is called Agentic Bots…

@perplexity_ai respect for doubling down on this. cf don’t know what they’re taking about.