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That's not how it works in this case. The author asked the AI for information about a specific page.
by SpaghettiCthulu 2y ago
That's not how it works in this case. The author asked the AI for information about a specific page.
- anileated 2y agoThe only way available to immediately test whether Perplexity pretends not to be Perplexity is by actively requesting a page. The fact that they mask their UA in that scenario makes it fairly obvious that they are not above bending rules and “working around” inconvenient for them public conventions. It seems safe to assume, until proven otherwise, that they would fake their bots’ user agents in every other case, such as when acquiring training data.