Comment by orliesaurus

There’s a tiny but important difference between scraping and getting work done.

Scraping is associate with mindless extraction. Like a vacuum cleaner sucking-in any data without context, permission, or contributing value back.

On the other hand AI agents aren’t here to scrape for the sake of it - I have seen it first hand. They are here to get work done, mostly researching, summarizing, assisting, building new products. You could argue this data is then use to train further a model, you would probably argue correctly, but that’s a topic for another day.

I implemented the poor man's version demo of what a similar concept to this could be like: http://github.com/toolhouseai/fastlane-demo