I'm now expecting we'll see a couple things in the next few years:
1. An explosion of residential proxy networks and other stuff to circumvent blocking of cloud IP ranges, for all the various AI scraping tools to use.
2. A corresponding explosion of countermeasures to the above. Instead of blocking suspicious IPs, maybe they get a 3GB file on their request to /scrape-target.html
Perhaps, but it's already fairly prodigious. Among "ethical" providers, it's often bundled as a background service in a lot of clickwrap "freeware". (To say nothing of compromised computers in a botnet)
1. An explosion of residential proxy networks and other stuff to circumvent blocking of cloud IP ranges, for all the various AI scraping tools to use.
2. A corresponding explosion of countermeasures to the above. Instead of blocking suspicious IPs, maybe they get a 3GB file on their request to /scrape-target.html