Amazon just sued Perplexity AI for allegedly enabling people to use its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases on Amazon.
Reads the Complaint: “It is about a company that, after repeated notice, chose to disguise an automated “agentic” browser as a human user, to evade Amazon’s technological barriers, and to access private customer accounts without Amazon’s permission.
“Amazon’s request is straightforward: Perplexity must be transparent when deploying its artificial intelligence (“AI”) agent on Amazon.com (the “Amazon Store”) and it must respect Amazon’s right to limit the activity of Perplexity’s AI agent in private customer accounts.
“No different than any other intruder, Perplexity is not allowed to go where it has been expressly told it cannot; that Perplexity’s trespass involves code rather than a lockpick makes it no less unlawful. Perplexity’s misconduct must end.”
Excerpt from Complaint v. Perplexity
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Did I say Internet Explorer and Firefox? I meant Chrome and Comet respectively, of course.