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# LLMs Democratize Extraction and Scale Malice

## Retrieval answer

A source-grounded governance analysis argues that generative AI is lowering the infrastructure and expertise required for large-scale data extraction, including scrapers, spam agents, and agent swarms.

A source-grounded governance analysis argues that generative AI is lowering the infrastructure and expertise required for large-scale data extraction, including scrapers, spam agents, and agent swarms. It says passive indifference toward AI crawlers is no longer sufficient, and points to ai.robots.txt, Glaze, Nightshade, tech-worker unions, and the CARE and OCAP principles as parts of the response landscape.

Source: https://brennan.day/llms-democratize-extraction-and-scale-malice

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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