The way Perplexity AI Inc. frames it, the company is something of a freedom fighter for the open web. Its \u201canswer engine\u201d \u2014 don\u2019t call it a chatbot \u2014 is democratizing access to information just as Google once did. And its Comet web browser, which can carry out some tasks on a user\u2019s behalf, is a revolutionary time-saving tool.<\/p>\n
But among some of its tech peers, Perplexity is becoming company non grata. Last week, Amazon.com Inc. sued the company<\/a> to stop allowing Comet\u2019s autonomous AI agent from browsing Amazon\u2019s store on a customer\u2019s behalf. A week earlier, Reddit Inc. alleged<\/a> Perplexity, in concert with three data companies, was illegally circumventing controls to prevent the scraping of billions of posts on the huge message board so they could be cited in Perplexity\u2019s answers. The chief executive officer of cybersecurity company Cloudflare Inc. said Perplexity was behaving \u201cmore like North Korean hackers\u201d than a legitimate AI company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The way Perplexity AI Inc. frames it, the company is something of a freedom fighter for the open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,61823,16108,356,343,344,12808,79389,4287,85,46,61822,61821,5094,125,7740],"class_list":{"0":"post-125603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-inc","10":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","11":"tag-amazon-com-inc","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-chief-executive-officer","15":"tag-cloudflare-inc-class-a","16":"tag-cybersecurity","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-perplexity-ai-inc","20":"tag-reddit-inc-cl-a","21":"tag-shopping","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}