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There are a lot of uses cases:

- LLM training (RAG, fine tuning)

- AI agents

- scraping

- SERP

- testing

- any kind of web automation basically

Bot protection of course might be a problem but it depends also on the volume of requests, IP, and other parameters.

AI agents will do more and more actions on behalf of humans in the future and I believe the bot protection mechanism will evolve to include them as legit.



thanks, it doesn't seem like it's the direction it's going at the moment. If you look at the robots.txt of many websites, they are actually banning AI bots from crawling the site. To me it seems more likely that each site will have its own AI agent to perform operations but controlled by the site.




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