Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

WIRED reports that Perplexity’s bot may bypass robots.txt when users provide specific URLs, with the CEO attributing some observed crawling to an unnamed third-party and the company asserting this behavior mirrors user-driven retrieval and is infrequent. An AWS inquiry is described as standard procedure, and the industry group Digital Content Next suggests such practices could violate principles governing generative AI; the article notes an updated statement from AWS.