AI Hustle: Make Money from AI and ChatGPT, Midjourney, NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI Perplexity Is Bypassing AI Blockers!?
Aug 7, 2025
The discussion kicks off with the ethical concerns surrounding Perplexity's alleged web scraping practices. Hosts dissect the legal gray areas separating AI from human data access. They navigate a contentious clash between tech giants, revealing the complexities of automated versus traditional data retrieval. The conversation further examines the copyright issues tied to AI training, particularly in media, and speculates on future regulations that could shape AI traffic. This dynamic dialogue showcases the pressing need for clearer guidelines in the evolving digital landscape.
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Perplexity Evades Bot Blocks
- Perplexity AI allegedly bypasses Cloudflare's bot-blocking measures by disguising its crawlers as regular users.
- This raises questions about the effectiveness and fairness of bot detection technology.
AI Crawling Versus Human Browsing
- The legal distinction between AI crawling and human browsing blurs when AI acts on human directions.
- Using AI tools to fetch data is akin to a person manually browsing and extracting information.
Difficulty Differentiating AI Bots
- There is a fundamental challenge in distinguishing between automated scraping bots and AI tools fetching info by user request.
- Cloudflare's bot detection may not adequately differentiate legitimate AI assistance from harmful bots.