# Perplexity Pretended to Be Human. Court Not Impressed.

- slug: perplexity-pretended-to-be-human-court-not-impressed
- date: 2026-03-31
- category: Agentics

A judge found Perplexity broke the law scraping Amazon with its AI agent. A week later an appeals court pressed pause. That gap is where the future of agentic AI will be decided.

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