Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoThe AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewallwww.searchenginejournal.comexternal-linkmessage-square242linkfedilinkarrow-up1859arrow-down16
arrow-up1853arrow-down1external-linkThe AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewallwww.searchenginejournal.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square242linkfedilink
minus-squareAmberskinlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up69·2 days agoUh, are they admitting they are trying to circumvent technological protections setup to restrict access to a system? Isn’t that a literal computer crime?
minus-squaredinckel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·2 days agoNo-no, see. When an AI-first company does it, it’s actually called courageous innovation. Crimes are for poor people
minus-squareutopiah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 days agoputs on evil hat CloudFlare should DRM their protection then DMCA Perplexity and other US based “AI” companies to oblivion. Side effect, might break the Internet.
minus-squareiamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThe Internet was already ruined, cloudflare is just bandaids on top of band aids.
Uh, are they admitting they are trying to circumvent technological protections setup to restrict access to a system?
Isn’t that a literal computer crime?
No-no, see. When an AI-first company does it, it’s actually called courageous innovation. Crimes are for poor people
See: Facebook/Meta
puts on evil hat CloudFlare should DRM their protection then DMCA Perplexity and other US based “AI” companies to oblivion. Side effect, might break the Internet.
The Internet was already ruined, cloudflare is just bandaids on top of band aids.
Worth it.