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Perplexity was an interesting company already for their whole going

after a Google search thing but they're getting more and more interesting in

terms of the controversies building around them.

Amazon is investigating perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating

AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so.

Quoting Wired.

An AWS spokesperson who talked to Wired

on the condition that they not be named

confirm the company's investigation of perplexity.

Wired had previously found that the startup which has backing

from the Jeff Bezos Family Fund and NVIDIA and was recently valued at $3

billion appears to rely on content from scraped websites that had forbidden access

through the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a common web standard.

While the Robots Exclusion Protocol is not legally binding,

Terms of Service generally are. The robot's exclusion protocol is a

decades-old web standard that involves placing a plain text file like

wired.com forward slash robots. text on a domain to indicate which pages should not be accessed by automated

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