TREE NEWS reports: Venture investor JC Bahr-de Stefano was permanently banned from restaurant booking platform Resy after his personal AI agent, Instinct, polled availability roughly 200 times per hour and every 0.4 seconds during the 9 a.m. release window, scanning 21 days of bookings every 10 minutes. Resy’s anti-fraud system treated the traffic as a DDoS-style bot attack. Amazon has separately blocked Meta’s Muse agent, which hit 730,000 downloads in five days, citing unauthorized automation.
AI Agent Gets User Permanently Banned From Resy for Polling 200 Times an Hour
AI take
The ban highlights a structural mismatch: consumer AI agents are being trained to optimize aggressively, while platform defenses still classify high-frequency polling as hostile automation. That puts agent builders and power users at odds with booking, commerce and data platforms that have no incentive to grant machine-speed access. The Amazon–Meta case suggests this is not isolated. Whether platforms develop sanctioned agent APIs or keep treating them as fraud is the open question.
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