News Summary

• Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites.
• Many people came to Perplexy’s defense.
• This is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet.
• Should an agent accessing a website on behalf of its user be treated like a bot?
• Or like a human making the same request?
• The debate comes as bot activity is currently outstripping human activity online, with AI traffic accounting for over 50%, according to Imperva's Bad Bot report.