Comment by zbentley
6 hours ago
Possible, but I doubt it. The sheer number of other free-to-read content sites dealing with the exact same problem the last few years (many of whom there's no plausible reason to DDoS) tells us that this is content harvesting, not an attack.
I'm curious and would like to see those reports. There's AI scraping for sure, but intentionally resource-consuming, increasingly-insidious AI scraping I've never actually read about.
AI scraping might be bad, but if a particular case that's actually a DDoS becomes the cause celebre against AI scraping, it will weaken the argument, not strengthen it.