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The amateurs at home are going to give the big companies what they want: an excuse for government regulation.

If it doesn't say it's a bot and it doesn't come from a corporate IP it doesn't mean it's NOT a bot and not run by some "AI" company.

I have no way to verify this, I suspect these are either stealth AI companies or data collectors, who hope to sell training data to them

I've heard that some mobile SDKs / Apps earn extra revenue by providing an IP address for VPN connections / scraping.

Chrome extensions too

Don't worry, the governments are perfectly capable of coming up with excuses all on their own.