If anyone is interested in a peek into why they are being so aggressive, check the “AI Hype” board [1]; beyond all the interesting local models (why I read it), it is usually filled with projects for circumventing LLM provider restrictions which are wildly popular (and frequently Chinese- no shade).
The #3 result today is: “End-to-end protocol replay toolkit for ChatGPT Plus/Team/Pro subscription with from-scratch hCaptcha solver and empirical anti-fraud research”. The “research” for anti-fraud is “how to get around it”.
It looks a lot like an arms race, and we are getting caught in the middle of it.