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There’s lots of paywalled content, and other content hidden behind logins and group memberships (Eg Facebook posts, University ex-alumni portals, University course portals).

Even the paywall issue alone, I can’t see how they could scale doing paywall signups automatically. Each paywall form is different, may require a local phone number in a different country to receive a text, etc.




LLMs might be good enough to sign up for sites, though maybe not yet fool “I am a human” test.




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