The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup has been crawling content from websites that don’t want to be crawled. Perplexity’s “answer engine” works by crawling large swaths of information on the web and then creating a big database (an index) of content it grabs from web pages. Instead of typing keywords into a search box, users type or speak questions into Perplexity’s web portal or mobile apps, and receive a narrative answe...