Public Proxy Data Center IPs Shared by Thousands: The Most Direct Culprit Behind AI Dumbing Down
Why do proxy service nodes that cost only a few bucks get dumbed down 100% of the time? An in-depth look at the inside story of public cloud ASN-announced IP ranges being blacklisted, and an analysis of the collective punishment mechanism triggered when thousands share the same exit.
1. The Black-Market Footprint of Nodes Shared by Thousands
Cheap proxy services often rent data center IPs from cloud providers such as Linode, DigitalOcean, and BandwagonHost.
These IPs fall under the Hosting (data center hosting) category in global risk-control databases, and all year round, thousands of people are simultaneously running crawlers, creating fake accounts, or launching cyberattacks from them, so their reputation has long been blacklisted.
2. OpenAI's Automated Defense Response
When your request comes in from a data center IP flooded with crawler traffic, the system defaults to assigning all traffic from that IP to the lowest-tier, dumbed-down routing channel. There is no luck to speak of.