if what they're saying is true then this was a huge fuckup on CFs part. i was already a bit suspicious when they started gloating about OAI agent since it's been shown to literally state that it's solving a captcha to complete the task.
i guess it will come down to browserbase corroborating the claims.
posperson•1h ago
Perplexity using Cloudflare on their own website with the WAF security settings turned up is quite ironic
SilverElfin•1h ago
> When companies like Cloudflare mischaracterize user-driven AI assistants as malicious bots, they're arguing that any automated tool serving users should be suspect—a position that would criminalize email clients and web browsers, or any other service a would-be gatekeeper decided they don’t like.
I wonder if Perplexity or others mix the traffic of the two types so they’re indistinguishable, specifically to make this argument.
astrange•20m ago
Why did Perplexity use ChatGPT to write this? That's a competitor.
Or are they just so bad at writing that their own style looks like it?
ronsor•14m ago
Perplexity uses third-party models. They aren't a frontier AI lab like OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepSeek.
minimaxir•1h ago
Tokumei-no-hito•1h ago
i guess it will come down to browserbase corroborating the claims.
posperson•1h ago