On Monday, Cloudflare publicly accused the AI search engine Perplexity of bypassing website blocking measures and surreptitiously scraping data. Nonetheless, a contingent of defenders sprang up to argue that, amidst the proliferation of AI agents, such practices, albeit controversial, were justifiable. The heart of this debate hinges on whether proxies that access websites on behalf of users should be classified as bots or as humans making identical requests. The resolution to this query could potentially steer the trajectory of these disputes.