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If this trend became widespread enough to have an effect on these companies profits I would bet money the vendors would just go the legal route and crack down on it. All these LLM providers do retain logs of your sessions and these vendors would easily be able to subpoena those records. Once they start dragging people into court and mass filing cease and desist orders that's going to end it.
On September 17, 1991, management failure, power equipment failure, and human error combined to disable AT&T's central office switch at 33 Thomas. More than five million calls were blocked, and the Federal Aviation Administration private lines were also interrupted, disrupting air traffic control to 398 airports serving most of the northeastern United States.
That's just being an adult.
But a marketing stunt isn't the only possibility. Until this is all verified by investigators or 3rd party experts we can't rule out an act of corporate espionage either. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.