Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 weeks agoYes your “leave the internet any time you want” strawman is not a good argument.
If allowing perplexity while blocking the bad guys is so easy why not find a service that does that for you?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The topic is that Cloudflare is classifying human sourced traffic as bot sourced traffic.
Saying “Just don’t use it” is a straw man. It doesn’t change the fact that Cloudflare, one of the largest CDNs representing a significant portion of the websites and services in the US, is misclassifying traffic.
I used mine intentionally while knowing it was a straw man, did you?
The same with “if it’s so easy, just don’t use it” hopefully for obvious reasons.
This affects both the customers of Cloudflare (the web service owners) as well as the users of the web services. A single site/user opting out doesn’t change the fact that a large portion of the Internet is classifying human sourced traffic as bot sourced traffic.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
LOL “human sourced traffic” oh the tragedy. I for one am rooting for perplexity to go out of business forever.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I know.
You’re engaging in motivated reasoning. That’s why you’re saying irrational things, because you’re working backwards from a conclusion (AI bad).
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I don’t see how categorically blocking non-human traffic is irrational given the current environment of AI scanning. And what’s rational about demanding cloudflare distinguish between the ‘good guy’ AI and ‘bad guy’ AI without proposing any methodology for doing so.