- Perplexity says that Cloudflare analysis of its AI traigators was technically defective
- There seems to have been a confusion with a third -party service used by perplexity.
- Perplexity wants Cloudflare to participate in the dialogue, not only to publish online accusations
Perpleplexity AI has accused Cloudflare of erroneously characterizing its web tracers as malicious bots after the latter said that the company of AI objected its bot identity using deceptive ropes and unexpected IP ranges.
Responding to the analysis and cloudflare tests, perplexity declared that the analysis was technically defective and that unrelated traffic attributed badly.
Perplexity has also affirmed that its traffic is driven by the user, not the stealthy scraping or malicious tracking, suggesting that Cloudflare has misunderstood the modern behavior of the assistant of AI.
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“It seems that Cloudflare confused perplexity with daily daily traffic applications of 3-6 million non-related Browserbase, a third-party cloud browser service that perplexity only uses highly specialized tasks (less than 45,000 daily applications),” the company wrote in a post X.
By going back in cloudflare’s obfuscation statements, Perpleity said the company obfusted its own methodology, even accusing the company of achieving a trick to get attention.
One of Perplexity’s possible explanations says: “Cloudflare needed a moment of intelligent advertising and we, its owner, encouraged to be a useful name to obtain them.”
“This controversy reveals that cloudflare systems are fundamentally inappropriate to distinguish between legitimate assistants and real threats,” the publication continues.
In the publication, the perplexity also offered context on how AI trackers work: when a user as a question, the AI agent does not recover the information from a central database, but obtains it in real time from the relevant websites. This contrasts with the traditional web tracking, “in which the trackers systematically visit millions of pages to build massive databases, if someone requested that specific information or not.”
In the future, perplexity urges Cloudflare to participate in the dialogue instead of publishing erroneous information about their practices.
