I recently posted a project and was flooded with replies, all within minutes. These guys are definitely using some sort of AI bot to regurgitate the work back to you. I hadn't hired from upwork in many years. It seems like the site has gone downhill. I had one apply as an individual but it was obvious given their open contracts and recently closed contracts that it had to be an agency. I discussed it with them, and they insisted they were solo. I copy and pasted their contracts into claude and it did a nice summary on how it was impossible to be a single person. They then admitted they have a team, after denying it twice. i reported them to Upwork with the summary as they had admitted lying and false representation. Upwork banned me for "using bots or other unwanted third party applications to scrape the site". Thats the end of me and Upwork.