Perplexity has successfully had an injunction overturned that previously banned its AI shopping bot, Comet, from accessing Amazon's platform. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Amazon's claim of Perplexity violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was not sufficiently proven to warrant an injunction. The court determined that it was the user, not Perplexity itself, who was accessing Amazon's servers, and that the potential harm to Amazon did not justify the injunction. AI
IMPACT This ruling could set a precedent for how AI bots interact with e-commerce platforms and data scraping.
RANK_REASON Legal ruling on an AI-powered tool's access to a commercial platform.
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- Bloomberg
- CDAFA
- Comet
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Perplexity
- San Francisco
- Supreme Court of the United States
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Engadget
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