"The rumours that this is a botnet mostly made up of compromised Android SetTop Boxes that’s been leased out to an AI crawler that’s trying to avoid being blocked ... "
We're living the dystopian cyberpunk dream. Unsolicited AI is definitely the new spam.
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/04/01/abusive-ai-web-crawlers-get-off-my-lawn/