- Perplexity says that Cloudflare’s analysis on its AI robots was technically defective
- There seems to have been a mixture with a third -party service used by Perplexity
- Perplexity wants Cloudflare to engage in dialogue – not just to publish online charges
Perplexity AI accused Cloudflare in addition to his web robots as malicious robots after the latter said that the company of IA obtained his identity as a bot using deceptive channels and unexpected IP ranges.
Responding to Cloudflare’s analysis and tests, perplexity said that the analysis was technically imperfect and that it misditated unrelated traffic.
Perplexity also said that its traffic is focused on users, not furtive scratching or malicious ramp, suggesting that Cloudflare has misunderstood the modern AI assistant behavior.
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“It seems that Cloudflare has confused perplexity with daily requests from 3 to 6 m of unrelated traffic in Browsebase, a Cloud third browser service that perplexity only sometimes uses highly specialized tasks (less than 45,000 daily requests)”, wrote the company in a post X.
Back to complaints by the obscure of Cloudflare, Perplexity said that the company had obscured its own methodology, even accusing the company of having succeeded in attracting attention.
One of the possible explanations of Perplexity can be read as follows: “Cloudflare needed a moment of intelligent advertising and us – their own client – is it made to be a useful name to make them one.”
“This controversy reveals that cloudflare systems are fundamentally inadequate to distinguish legitimate AI assistants and real threats,” continues the position.
In the post, Perplexity has also offered a context on the operation of AI crawlers: when a user asks a question, the AI agent does not recover the information from a central database, but rather recovers it in real time from the relevant websites. This contrasts with the traditional web ramp, “in which the crawlers systematically visit millions of pages to build massive databases, whether someone asked for this specific information.”
In the future, perplexity urges Cloudflare to engage in dialogue instead of publishing a disinformation on its practices.
