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Behold the mindset of an individual from a low-trust society.

“x is stupid because y was smart and did z shady/illegal things at their expense, if x was smart they wouldn’t be susceptible to y going to great lengths to exploit them ergo it’s deserved”

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> “x is stupid because y was smart and did z shady/illegal things at their expense, if x was smart they wouldn’t be susceptible to y going to great lengths to exploit them ergo it’s deserved”

I honestly can't tell if you think this sentiment is expressed by the US AI companies or the Chinese AI companies.

This gives off "The last line of Orwell's Animal Farm" vibes.

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Not really sure what else they can do, between people running residential proxies (embedded in cheap games or for a tiny sum of crypto) on their phones at home, making the source of the traffic indistinguishable from legitimate traffic, to ID verification check completion as a service in low-income countries, there isn't much they can do to block it.
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They could run their service at a profit?
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No customers at that price point though.
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> No customers at that price point though.

Oh, no!

Anyway.

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