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       Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data.  He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem.  Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".