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		visarga on June 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent Just the other day Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas was dunking on Google and OpenAI, and putting themselves on a superior moral position because they give citations while closed-book LLMs memorize the web information with large models and don't give credit. Funny they got caught not following robots.txt and hiding their identity. https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1801714601404547267

marcosdumay on June 15, 2024 [–]

Nobody follows robots.txt, because every site's robots.txt forbids anybody that isn't google from looking at it.

Also, "hiding their identity" is what every single browser does since Mosaic changed its name.

paulryanrogers on June 15, 2024 | [–]

Including extra, legacy agents isn't hiding because they include their distinct identifiers too.

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