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One hopes that, even if they're capable of doing so, these companies will explicitly forbid it. Or, at worst, that these systems are traversing the web with a proper user-agent, and captchas/sites can infer its an AI from that.

Of course, when billions are on the line, and eventually when people are off running their own, ethics get murky. Longer term, I suspect we'll see a global push toward requiring cryptographically asserted human-ness through deep integration with hardware. Cloudflare (and, I'm sure, others) has done some significant work in this domain [1].

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/cry...



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