"The suit raises a host of questions. Is Perplexity's agent a rogue buyer with unacceptable security risks, or is Amazon bullying an insurgent competitor out of the game? Whose interests does a semi-autonomous AI agent represent, the customer or the agent's maker, and who is liable for its misconduct? The next iteration of AI may hang in the balance of the suit."
"Perplexity is no champion of the common man against the overbearing dominance of Amazon. The startup has raised $1.5bn at a $20bn valuation, per TechCrunch. In the process, the company has vacuumed up textual content to train its various AI products with little concern for rights holders, clandestinely circumvent explicit prohibitions on unauthorized scraping. Both Forbes and Wired have accused the company of directly plagiarizing their work with convincing documentation."
Amazon sued Perplexity over a shopping feature in Perplexity's Comet browser that enables an AI agent to place orders autonomously. Amazon alleges the agent covertly accessed customer accounts and masked AI activity as human browsing. The dispute highlights regulatory and security concerns around AI agents — autonomous digital secretaries that interact with websites. Microsoft research found such agents can be manipulated in shopping scenarios. The lawsuit raises questions about whom semi-autonomous agents represent, and who bears liability for misconduct. Perplexity has raised large funding and faces accusations of scraping textual content without regard for rights holders and plagiarizing journalistic work.
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