Easier and cheaper, yes, but they could suck a lot of data very quickly this way.

I don’t see that we could do anything to stop it though, and I think your post pretty much says we can’t anyway.

As I said elsewhere today, AI could be used to make a beautiful world for all of us. Instead, desperate people will try to use it to survive, greedy people will use it to increase their wealth, and thieves will use it to steal.