Are user agents people?

Perplexity and Cloudflare fight over the future of bots. Plus: Interviewing the dead with AI, Trump becomes a copyright victim, and more

The fight that broke out this week between Cloudflare and Perplexity is a fascinating one. Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of using bots improperly, which defends itself by saying its bots are behaving just like people, which makes it OK. I couldn’t help but think of Mitt Romney’s famous “corporations are people” line. Romney was speaking more philosophic…