@ Mike,
This was my sarcastic way of asking; why are they doing this? Lots of energy waisted for no results..
Or is it AI databases scraping the net for more images?
Don't think so; I'm fe on Saatchi gallery since almost 20 years now, nothing like that ever happens there... And that's a big art market place too.
Why are these bots targeting FAA?
Frankly, and no offense, but for AI databases scraping and collecting art, I could think of many better sources than FAA.
Anyway; those bots can find our work much easier on social media, where most of us post it anyway...copyable and unprotected.
And that's why I presume it's a completely different kind of scam scheme....
Who can gain by this?
Bots don't work for free, they cost hardware and electricity... so there's always a profit needed..
But what if it were not bots, but someone trying to keep us happy here, with lots of fake views?
Everything points in that direction...
Since I started here with an account, a bit more than a year ago, with every new image I uploaded, my first 10 - 20 views were always located in NY... always found that kind of suspect...