Does anyone know what's the deal with these scrapers, or why they're attributed to AI?
I would assume any halfway competent LLM driven scraper would see a mass of 404s and stop. If they're just collecting data to train LLMs, these seem like exceptionally poorly written and abusive scrapers written the normal way, but by more bad actors.
Are we seeing these scrapers using LLMs to bypass auth or run more sophisticated flows? I have not worked on bot detection the last few years, but it was very common for residential proxy based scrapers to hammer sites for years, so I'm wondering what's different.
I would assume any halfway competent LLM driven scraper would see a mass of 404s and stop. If they're just collecting data to train LLMs, these seem like exceptionally poorly written and abusive scrapers written the normal way, but by more bad actors.
Are we seeing these scrapers using LLMs to bypass auth or run more sophisticated flows? I have not worked on bot detection the last few years, but it was very common for residential proxy based scrapers to hammer sites for years, so I'm wondering what's different.