In violation of long-standing internet norms like robots.txt, Cloudflare caught Perplexity AI scraping content from websites that had explicitly opted out. The situation begs the question: what happens when AI startups prioritize growth over digital consent?
On this week's show, Chris and Yaniv discuss the repercussions of Cloudflare's "honeypot" traps catching rogue AI scrapers. They also dig into Wikipedia’s launch of a fast-track deletion policy to counter the overwhelming number of low-effort, AI-generated articles, and consider whether Amazon's AWS is falling behind cloud rivals like Google, Microsoft, and Oracle.
In this episode, you will:
* Understand why Cloudflare accused Perplexity AI of ignoring internet norms
* Learn how robots.txt and internet trust are being undermined by AI crawlers
* Explore whether “move fast and break things” still applies in the AI era
* Discover how Wikipedia is fighting back against a flood of AI-generated slop
* Debate the moral vs. legal boundaries of disruptive startup behavior
* Hear why AWS may be falling behind Google, Microsoft, and even Oracle
* Examine what makes a wartime vs. peacetime CEO in the AI cloud race
* Consider whether AI is eating its own tail by destroying its data sources
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