Or some anti-ddos/bot companies using ultra cheap scraping services to annoy you enough to get you into their "free" anti bot protection, so they can charge the few real ai scrapers for access to your site.

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throw10920 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is there any evidence that this has actually happened?

	▲	zhengyi13 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Even if there isn't (yet?), there's probably someone who's honestly thinking this is potentially a viable business model and at least napkin-mathing it out.