What is the browser analogy the court used in the Perplexity ruling?
The court reasoned that an AI agent acting on a user's behalf is no different from a web browser loading a page for them. Just as Safari accessing Amazon is not Apple accessing Amazon, Perplexity's agent shopping for a user is not Perplexity accessing Amazon. The user is the one who accessed the computers in both cases.
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