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I'm going to be frank here, because I know my argument isn't "cheap". When one utilizes OSINT techniques (which using an ML service hosted by a third-party certainly qualifies as), there are baked-in assumptions that

1) this source could go away at any time, and

2) the source is only a reflection of the interests of the third-party, not something to be taken at face value.

No 2 can certainly be the subject of research, but to do so without accounting for No 1 would indicate bad research practices from the jump. For example, they could have (and should have) been snapshotting the outputs, tagged with versions & dates. By the sound of it, the outputs weren't even the subject of research, but were instead propping up the research. That flies in the face of No 2 as well. Let them start over, with better methodology this time.