Perplexed-ity?

I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser.  I want to like them and I want to cheer for them but jeesh Louise I just can’t when they repeatedly flaunt the crawling rules.  I get it; there’s this sense of desparation when you work at a tech company with cool technology and yet you have such a small market share and you try so hard.  Maybe Apple will buy them?

My other musing would be about Anthropic.  Here’s an 800 pound Gorilla in the frontier model space that is apparently making money had over fist, and could quity possibly be crippled by a class action suit based on the fact they stole ebooks to train their system.