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Perplexity has pointed out that traditional bots differ from AI assistants or agents who also operate on the open web.

Perplexity vs Cloudflare: Are AI bots finding new ways to bypass a website's defences?

August 09, 2025 10:32 am

Cloudflare’s recent allegations against Perplexity have sparked a debate about the wave of bots and AI agents flooding the internet, in particular, what sets them apart.

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Why news publishers are struggling to fend off AI bots scraping online content

July 04, 2024 6:05 pm

Tensions between AI companies and news publishers have continued to escalate with Perplexity AI now at the centre.

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The digital risks that come with recording these times of protest

January 19, 2020 7:48 am

These are all actions that make sure that the arc of history remains bent in the right direction, and that paid troll farms and hired authoritative cells do not capture the narrative.

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False stories travel faster on Twitter than the truth: MIT study

March 09, 2018 3:28 pm

A study let by MIT, in consultation with fact-checking websites, has found that fake news spreads on Twitter much faster than the truth.

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Twitter bars tactics used by 'bots' to spread false stories

February 22, 2018 1:44 pm

In a crackdown against false stories, micro-blogging platform Twitter has said it will not allows users to like and retweet from multiple accounts, or use 'bots'.

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India must be prepared for HNS botnet attack: Cyber security firm

February 09, 2018 3:25 pm

The emerging botnet, that uses custom-built peer-to-peer communication to exploit victims, was spotted by security researchers at Bitdefender Labs on January 10 before it disappeared for a few days.

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Facebook Messenger rolls out 'Discover Tab' bot identification feature in India

November 16, 2017 2:18 pm

Facebook on Thursday announced that its "Discover" tab for finding featured bots, nearby places and businesses will be rolled out for Messenger users in India.

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New AI system cracks CAPTCHA anti-bot security software

October 30, 2017 4:38 pm

Researchers have developed an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) system to crack CAPTCHA, the software that was created to prevent bots from accessing websites.