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Perplexity has also asserted its traffic is user-driven, not stealth scraping or malicious crawling, suggesting that Cloudflare has misunderstood modern AI assistant behavior.

The AI company said modern AI assistants are fundamentally different from traditional web crawling that was used by search engines over the years.