Comment by ADeerAppeared

> (Otherwise we'd just be doing that already.)

Not quite what the original commenter meant but: WE ARE.

A major consequence of this reckless AI scraping is that it turbocharged the move away from the web and into closed ecosystems like Discord. Away from the prying eyes of most AI scrapers ... and the search engine indexes that made the internet so useful as an information resource.

Lots of old websites & forums are going offline as their hosts either cannot cope with the load or send a sizeable bill to the webmaster who then pulls the plug.