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Those Challenges can be bypassed too using various browser automation. With the Comet-like tool, Perplexity can advance its crawling activity with much more human-like behaviour.
I am sorry, Cloudafre is the internet police now?
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But I can send my personal shopper and you'll be none the wiser.
It's all about scale. The impact of your personal shopper is insignificant unless you manage to scale it up into a business where everyone has a personal shopper by default.
The point is the web is changing, and people use a different type of browser now. Ans that browser happens to be LLMs.
Anybody complaining about the new browser has just not got it yet, or has and is trying to keep things the old way because they don’t know how or won’t change with the times. We have seen it before, Kodak, blockbuster, whatever.
Grow up cloud flare, some is your business models don’t make sense any more.
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But I can send my personal shopper and you'll be none the wiser.
It’s possible to violate all sorts of social norms. Societies that celebrate people that do so are on the far opposite end of the spectrum from high trust ones. They are rather unpleasant.
Mind you I'm not saying electric scooters are a bad idea, I have one and I quite enjoy it. I'm saying we didn't need five fucking startups all competing to provide them at the lowest cost possible just for 2/3s of them to end up in fucking landfills when the VC funding ran out.
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Some stores do not welcome Instacart or Postmates shoppers. You can shop there. You can shop with your phone out, scanning every item to price match, something that some bookstores frown on, for example. Third party services cannot send employees to index their inventory, nor can they be dispatched to pick up an item you order online. Their reasons vary. Some don’t want their businesses perception of quality to be ta…
But I can send my personal shopper and you'll be none the wiser.
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> companies who want AI to recommend their products need to turn this off before it starts hurting them financially Content marketing, gamified SEO, and obtrusive ads significantly hurt the quality of Google search. For all its flaws, LLMs don’t feel this gamified yet. It’s disappointing that this is probably where we’re headed. But I hope OpenAI and Anthropic realize that this drop in search result quality might be…
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Relevant to this is that Perplexity lies to the user when specifically asked about this. When the user asks if there is a robots.txt file for the domain, it lies and says there is not. If an LLM will not (cannot?) tell the truth about basic things, why do people assume it is a good summarizer of more complex facts?
The article did not test if the issue was specific to robots.txt or if it can not find other files. There is a difference between doing a poor summarization of data, and failing to even be able to get the data to summarize in the first place.
I'm not really addressing the issue raised in the article. I am noting that the LLM, when asked, is either lying to the user or making a statement that it does not know to be true (that there is no robots.txt). This is way beyond poor summarization.
I find this problem quite difficult to solve: 1. If I as a human request a website, then I should be shown the content. Everyone agrees. 2. If I as the human request the software on my computer to modify the content before displaying it, for example by installing an ad-blocker into my user agent, then that's my choice and the website should not be notified about it. Most users agree, some websites try to nag you into…
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I am firmly convinced that this should be the future in the next decade, since the internet as we know it has been weaponized and ruined by social media, bots, state actors and now AI.
There should exist an internet for humans only, with a single account per domain.
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Unexpected underdog argument. What is happening in reality is all companies are racing to (a) scrape, buy and collect as much as they can from others, both individuals and companies while (b) locking down their own data against everyone else who isn’t directly making them money (eg through viewing their ads). Part of me thinks that the open web has a paradox of tolerance issue, leading to a race to the bottom/tragedy…
We need to wake up and understand that all the information already uploaded is more or less a free web material, once taken through the lens of ML-somethings. With all the second, and third-order effects such as the fact that this changes completely the whole motivation, and consequence of open-source perhaps. It is also only a matter of time scrapers once again get through walls by twitter, reddit and alike. This is…
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Some stores do not welcome Instacart or Postmates shoppers. You can shop there. You can shop with your phone out, scanning every item to price match, something that some bookstores frown on, for example. Third party services cannot send employees to index their inventory, nor can they be dispatched to pick up an item you order online. Their reasons vary. Some don’t want their businesses perception of quality to be ta…
But I can send my personal shopper and you'll be none the wiser.