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The Great Scrape: How Reddit vs. Perplexity Exposed the Broken Economics of the AI Era
The internet just caught AI in the act — but the crime scene looks more like a mirror. Reddit set a “honey pot” — a fake post visible only to Google’s crawler. When Perplexity’s AI surfaced that invisible post, it confirmed what many suspected: Perplexity wasn’t just browsing the open web; it was pulling from Google’s cached Reddit content via proxy networks like OxyLabs, WMProxy, and SerpAPI. In plain English: Reddit built a locked vault, Google indexed the vault, and Perpl

Rich Washburn
Nov 63 min read


New Government AI Crackdown Could Paralyze Silicon Valley!
In an unprecedented move that has left the tech world reeling, a new legislative proposal from AI policy US is poised to drastically...

Rich Washburn
Apr 25, 20243 min read


Legal Titans and the Quest for General Intelligence
The lawsuit involving Elon Musk, OpenAI, and the complexities surrounding artificial general intelligence (AGI) stands as a testament to...

Rich Washburn
Mar 1, 20242 min read
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