[lokimedes]

All I want is an API for my AI, you can ask me for my public key, if you want my human identity verified. The collateral damage of this bot hunting is the emergence of personal AIs. Do we really want that? It feels regressive. (I see the hypocrisy here, we are fighting the scrapers that feed the LLMs that runs our personal agents)

[larsmosr]

You are not wrong. But the use case I keep seeing is companies with proprietary content they spent real money creating, who don't want it showing up in someone else's training data for free. It's less about bot hunting and more about content owners having a choice.