Overview

• Amazon Web Services is investigating claims that Perplexity AI violated its terms of service by scraping content from websites that blocked such activity.
• Forbes, Wired, and other major publishers have accused Perplexity of using their content without proper attribution, including bypassing paywalls.
• Perplexity's CEO denies wrongdoing, asserting that the company complies with web standards and only uses third-party scrapers for specific tasks.
• Investigations revealed that Perplexity's chatbot sometimes cites low-quality, AI-generated sources, raising concerns about misinformation.
• The controversy has intensified as Perplexity continues to attract significant investment and aims to compete with Google in the AI search space.