"Economic migration" is a (usually derogatory) term for moving into a country to earn more money, with no desire to adapt to the culture of your new home.
The confusion is, in part, because one of the functional underpinnings of capitalism is “make a bet” as a method of allocating resources.
Those whose bets paid off didn’t “earn” the money, they “won” it. Calling it “earned” confuses “being morally deserving” with “receiving”.
The positive functional effect of “take a risk and get more money if it pays off” is that folks who allocate capital well end up with more capital to allocate.
Of course, this is imperfect ; there are those who allocate capital poorly (by some definition) yet win returns anyways, and some who allocate it well while being unable to capture the value they create.
It is, but… you’ve seen the marketing material being put out?
“AGI is just around the corner and could destroy humanity if we don’t solve alignment” is something AI leadership at multiple companies have publicly said.
Those provisions would broadly be civil (not criminal); the vendor would have to identify you had reversed the blob and then take you to court, and then win.
They could also try for criminal charges if you’re in a relevant jurisdiction.
It's circumstantial evidence, but Occam's Razor also applies.
It's not a hostile DOS in the traditional sense (I've mitigated a few of those) - no "pay us to make it stop", no pattern to the requests other than "fetch every unique URL a few times".
It wasn't happening until financial incentives to gather large datasets for AI training appeared.
Bad actors (using residential proxies & claiming to be a real browser) mostly showed up after folk started blocking ones that identified themselves as AI scrapers.
It's obvious to blame AI training because there's a shortage of better explanations. Who else would be paying for these (expensive) residential botnets, only to use them to (eg) web-scrape wikipedia (which offers free downloads of its content in a structured format)?
The simplest explanation of the technical behavior is "a bot coded to follow every link it sees & save the results", and the simplest explanation of the motive to run such a bot is "to train a large language model".
They showed up when the AI money did. The evidence is circumstantial, but… some of them are remarkably well engineered (from a “how difficult is it to identify this traffic” perspective, in a way that never existed before (I have been running a quite sizeable site for 8 years, over 200k registered users, and you don’t need to register to use 99% of it).