TL;DR Article claims AppCloud (software in question) has ties to ironSource, an Israeli-founded company now owned by US-based Unity, but never clarifies what those ties are. The author only states that an ironSource tech called "Aura" appears to do something similar to AppCloud. However, the author also points out that AppCloud isn't listed anywhere on ironSource's website. They also acknowledge that there's no evidence currently that AppCloud is doing anything weird. This looks an awful lot like an "Israel bad" article.

I feels like it's a bit hard to take much from this without running this trial many times for each model. Then it would be possible to see if there are consistent themes among each model's solutions. Otherwise, it feels like the specific style of each result could be somewhat random. I didn't see any mention of running multiple trials for each model.

If I order a package from a company selling a good, am I inviting all that company's competitors to show up at my doorstep to try and outbid the delivery person from the original company when they arrive, and maybe they all show up at the same time and cause my porch to collapse? No, because my front porch is a limited resource for which I paid for an intended purpose. Is it illegal for those other people to show up? Maybe not by the letter of the law.

I mean, it costs money to host content. If you are hosting content for bots fine, but if the money you're paying to host it is meant to benefit human users (the reason for robots.txt) then yeah, you ought to ask permission. Content might also be copyrighted. Honestly, I don't even know why I'm bothering to mention these things because it just feels obvious. LLM scrapers obviously want as much data as they can get, whether or not they act like assholes (ignoring robots.txt) or criminals (ignoring copyright) to get it.

Not surprising. Look and see what glorious examples of virtue we have among those at the top of today's world. I could get by with a little inspiration from that front, but there's none to be found. A rare few of us can persevere by sheer force of will, but most just find the status quo pretty depressing.