Make it reflective, reflect it back onto an OpenAI API route.

Lol but actually this is a good way to escalate priority. Better yet, point it at various Microsoft sites that aren't provisioned to handle the traffic and let them internally escalate.

I'm not a malicious actor and wouldn't want to interrupt their business, so that's a no-go.

On a technical level, the crawler followed HTTP redirects and had no per-domain rate limiting, so it might have been possible. Now the API seems to have been deactivated.