This is the same company—makers of the Perplexity “AI-powered answer engine”—caught plagiarizing 404Media and many others. They got their start scraping Twitter using fake academic credentials.
www.404media.co/perplexitys-...
WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service.
Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos.
wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/
