RE: The 100,000+ IP Question: Why is a Massive Botnet Obsessed with Old Blockchain Data?

I reckon your AI training theory is the most likely.

I'm seeing a huge amount of AI-generated traffic hitting my own website, although because it's an e-commerce site it's mostly competitors price scraping together with "carding" attempts (low-value transactions used to verify whether stolen credit cards can be used before the data gets sold on) with the AI being used to try to make it look like human traffic. I'm guessing there are also AI bots taking product data to help train other AI's in how to write descriptions for the kind of things I sell.

Is there a pattern to the posts being looked at ? It sounds like they are working chronologically, but if they are hitting (for example) the creative writing communities, or specific Hivers who post about particular topics (e.g. crypto news, current affairs or whatever) it might be that they are training AI to write in those specific genres.