I'm talking about perplexity's behavior. Perhaps there's a point of contention on perplexity downloading a document on a person's behalf. I view this as if there is a service running that does it for multiple people, then it's a bot.
Perplexity makes requests on behalf of its users. I would argue that’s only illegitimate if the combined volume of the requests exceeds what the users would do by an order of magnitude or two. Maybe that’s what’s happening.
But “for multiple people” isn’t an argument IMO, since each of those people could run a separate service doing the same. Using the same service, on the contrary, provides an opportunity to reduce the request volume by caching.
