I usually give up or find a free alternative. Typically, if something is available at a good price I won’t bother trying to get it free to begin with.

I don’t remember the institution, but I remember reading a paper on a simulated trading environment with several ai agents who didn’t know about eachother. The LLMs were pretty conservative with profits and deliberately bought and sold in predictable ways. They all ended up “colluding” with eachother by deliberately not competing.

I’ll be honest, when I got my ass blown up by a trip mine 1 minute from completing a S tier pizza delivery, stumbled into the bunker shamefully with a half ruined pie, and a vtuber popped up to take delivery and told me she was the very same person who put the trip mines by the door, this old man did crack a smile.