Is there actually any plausible theory why "AI" would repeatedly scrape the same sites? Are there that many competing, completely independent AI labs? Is it che

Is there actually any plausible theory why "AI" would repeatedly scrape the same sites? Are there that many competing, completely independent AI labs? Is it cheaper to repeatedly scrape than to buffer the scraped data locally? (I find it very hard to imagine that it's easier to deal with changing/disappearing content than it is to stand up such a cache.)